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ON THE VERGE OF A BREAKTHROUGH: PROJECTIONS OF ESCAPE FROM THE ATTIC AND THE THWARTED TOWER IN CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN'S "THE YELLOW WALLPAPER" AND SUSAN GLASPELL'S THE VERGE

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From: The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Date: 20060101
Author:Duneer, Anita

I fancy it is the pattern that keeps her so still.1

The Verge (1921) has been recognized as the most modern of Susan Glaspell's plays. According to her biographer, Barbara Ozeiblo, it is "Glaspell's most ambitious play and best exemplifies the degree to which the Provincetown Players had assimilated and made their own the innovative trends of European theater."2 The Provincetown Players was founded in 1915 by Susan Glaspell, her husband George Cram "Jig" Cook, and others from the politically conscious Greenwich Village set, who, reacting to the War in Europe, "hoped for a spiritual revolution ...

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