The Verge: A Play in Three Acts

The Verge: A Play in Three Acts - Paperback

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The Verge: A Play in Three Acts

The Verge: A Play in Three Acts - Paperback

by Susan Glaspell
$9.38
Sale price  $9.38 Regular price 

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by Susan Glaspell (Author)

From the Pulitzer prize-winning playwright comes the chronicle of Claire who, breaking away from the conventions of society, rebels against her Puritan background. Considered Susan Glaspell.s most sophisticated play, it was a pioneering work in nontraditional staging in the theatre. While critics and audiences at the time found the play perplexing-Alexander Woollcott proclaimed the play "decadent"-today it is considered a classic of experimental theatre.

Number of Pages: 66
Dimensions: 0.14 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN
Publication Date: February 01, 2015
ISBN9781507815281
Author Susan Glaspell
PublisherCreatespace Independent Publishing Platform
GenreHistory and Drama
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 2015
LanguageENG- English
Pages66
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Susan Glaspell

Sarah Blackwood is Professor of English at Pace University, where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century US literature, visual culture, and representations of selfhood. She is the author of The Portrait's Subject: Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States (2019), as well as the introductions to the Penguin Classics editions of Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country and The Age of Innocence and editor of The Norton Library edition of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Her criticism has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and elsewhere. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

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