Inheritors

By Glaspell, Susan

Book Id: WPLBN0002954571
Format Type:
File Size: 79.21 MB
Reproduction Date: 2012

Title:	Inheritors
Author:	Glaspell, Susan
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Dramatic Works, Play, Politics
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Inheritors
Historic Publication Date:	1921
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Glaspell, B. S. (1921). Inheritors. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
Inheritors, (1921) by American dramatist Susan Glaspell concerns the legacy of an idealistic farmer who wills his highly coveted midwest farmland to the establishment of a college (Act I.) Forty years later, when his granddaughter stands up for the rights of Hindu nationals to protest at the college her grandfather founded, she jeopardizes funding for the college itself and sets herself against her own uncle, president of the institution's trustees (Acts II & III.) Ultimately, she defies her family's wishes, and as a consequence is bound for prison herself (Act IV.) The play was a stirring defense of free speech and an individual's ability to stand for his or her own ideal during a time of aggressive anti-Communist politics in the US. Inheritors was first performed at Provincetown Playhouse in 1922, the last of Glaspell's plays presented there. It has been revived in New York City by Mirror Repertory in 1983 and Metropolitan Playhouse in 2005.

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Play, Politics