Plays by Susan GlaspellA cofounder of the Provincetown Players and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Susan Glaspell (1876 1948) was one of the first female playwrights. Although long neglected, the four plays collected in this critical edition reveal the thoroughly modern nature of her concerns. Trifles (1916) develops a feminist critique of social role, while The Outside (1917) stages a debate between the life force and a perverse celebration of death. In The Verge