| Title | : | Alisons House |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 158 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 1930 |
| Awards | : | Pulitzer Prize Drama (1931) |
Alisons House Reviews
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"Alison's House" earned Glaspell the Pulitzer Prize. But (no kidding) it is wildly, incredibly, hard to find! Seriously?! No pdfs? Not in the library? And not in the top five most anthologized of her works... If anyone can point me in the right direction for a copy of "Alison's House," I would really appreciate it.
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Loosely inspired by Emily Dickinson, Alison’s House tells the story of a deceased poet and her family’s role in shaping her historic image. The play, which won a Pulitzer Prize, has some nice moments and an interesting conflict between the poet as a person and the poet as a cultural figure. Recommended.
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Long running time for today's standards. The plot interesting and scandalous for the era, but tediously drawn out without a whole lot happening. Trifles, in my opinion, is still her best and worthy of standing the test of time.
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I picked this up after it was mentioned as one of the few then-contemporary plays Eva Le Gallienne produced at the Civic Repertory in the biography I'm reading and I realized that all I'd ever read by Susan Glaspell was "Trifles."
Very quiet and predictable (and INCREDIBLY CONCERNED about infidelity--very much of another time) and lacking in the flashes of brilliant feminist insight that make "Trifles" great. It is entirely unsurprising (but still disappointing) that a play based on Emily Dickinson has conveniently killed off the Susan character and given Alison a hopeless romance with a dude instead.
It does, however, have some pretty great lines. "Sometimes I think if I didn't have to do anything for a while--I could do something" is basically how I feel all the time. -
This is a surprisingly good drama about writing, legacy, family, and love. (so like, every drama ever) Everyone says it's about Emily Dickinson but it's not, really. It would be better if it actually were. Also, for a pulitzer prize winner, it's so hard to find! (archive.org has a copy tho)
