Susan Keating Glaspell, Springs Eternal

Emeline Jeanne Jouve
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Springs Eternal

marked Susan Glaspell’s return to drama, a genre thanks to which she had gained enormous popularity, but which she had left aside after the polemics about her Pulitzer Prize for

Alison’s House

and her failed collaboration with Norman Matson on

The Comic Artist

. As Linda Ben-Zvi and J. Ellen Gainor note in their introduction to

Springs Eternal

, “looking retrospectively at Glaspell’s thirty years of writing for the theatre, we can now see that wars bookended her career” (354). Glaspell wrote her first play,

Suppressed Desires

, in 1915, that is, one year after World War I had broken out. This first international conflict informed many of her works for the Provincetown Players – the amateur theatre troupe she co-founded with George Cram Cook – and most notably

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Citation: Jouve, Emeline Jeanne. "Springs Eternal". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 October 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=29479, accessed 29 March 2024.]

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