Plays

Susan Glaspell (1876–1948) was a pivotal figure in the development of modern American drama and a pioneering feminist writer. Born in Davenport, Iowa, she began her career as a journalist but soon turned her insights and observations into fiction and drama. Glaspell's most enduring work is perhaps the play 'Trifles' (1916), a remarkable piece grounded in the early feminist consciousness which she ...