“A Different Kind of the Same Thing”: The Early One-Act Plays of Susan Glaspell and J. M. Synge

LINDA BEN-ZVI is Professor emeritae, English and Theatre, Colorado State University; and Theatre Studies, Tel Aviv University. She was a John Stern Distinguished Professor, Colorado; Fellow at the Library of Congress; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Newberry Library, Chicago, Lady Davis Professor at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and twice president of the International Samuel Beckett Society. She has authored and edited thirteen books, four on Beckett and four on Susan Glaspell, including Glaspell's Complete Plays (McFarland, 2010), edited with J. Ellen Gainor and Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times (Oxford University Press, 2005), recipient of the Special Jury Prize of the American Theatre Library Association, as well as editing Glaspell's The Road to the Temple, her biography of George Cram Cook (McFarland, 2005).