Susan Keating Glaspell, Tickless Time: A Comedy in One Act

Noelia Hernando-Real (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1918

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Play

Resources

Tickless Time opened on 20^th December 1918 during the third New York season of the Provincetown Players, and it was the second play Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook wrote in collaboration. This one-act, even if not widely known today, was considered the big hit of the bill.

As they did in their first collaboration, Suppressed Desires, Glaspell and Cook chose here again the satirical form to engage the audience into a more serious topic: their critique of modernity. The play is set in a garden in Provincetown, the town where many New York bohemians used to spend their summer and where the Provincetown Players were born in the summer of 1915. Ian and Eloise Joyce, the protagonists, are a couple …

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Citation: Hernando-Real, Noelia. "Tickless Time: A Comedy in One Act". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 August 2009 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16000, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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