# Plays

**Author:** Susan Glaspell
**Tags:** American drama
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**Added:** 10.07.2026
**URL:** https://samolit.com/books/95946

## Description

This 1920 collection gathers eight one-act and full-length dramas by Susan Glaspell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who co-founded the Provincetown Players with her husband George Cram Cook. The volume brings together Trifles, The People, Close the Book, The Outside, Woman's Honor, Bernice, Suppressed Desires, and Tickless Time, the last two written in collaboration with Cook. Rooted in the intimate, experimental spirit of the Provincetown stage, these plays reveal Glaspell's gift for compressing profound human conflict into spare, suggestive scenes. Trifles, her most enduring work, uses the seemingly mundane details of a farmhouse kitchen to expose a hidden world of female solidarity and quiet rebellion against patriarchal justice. Elsewhere, Bernice probes the mysteries of identity and memory after a woman's death, while Suppressed Desires satirizes the era's fascination with psychoanalysis. Across the collection, Glaspell examines gender roles, social convention, and the tension between individual desire and communal expectation with wit, psychological nuance, and formal daring. Together these plays capture a pivotal moment in American theater, when small experimental companies were reshaping dramatic form and giving voice to distinctly modern, often feminist, concerns.