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

and her failed collaboration with Norman Matson on

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

, “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,

, 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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