Hernando Real, Noelia. Self and Space in the Theater of Susan Glaspell. Jefferson, NC:
McFarland, 2011.(Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-6394-7; EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8832-2;
214 pp.)
Founding member of the Provincetown Players, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, bestselling
novelist, and short story writer, Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) was a great contributor to
American literature. An exploration of eleven plays written between the years 1915 and 1943,
this critical study focuses on one of Glaspell’s central themes,
the interplay between place and identity. This study examines the means Glaspell employs to
engage her characters in proxemical and verbal dialectics with the forces of place that turn
them into victims of location. Of particular interest are her characters’ attempts to escape the
influence of territoriality and shape identities of their own.