''Inheritors'' is a four-act play written by the American dramatist

Susan Glaspell Susan Keating Glaspell (July 1, 1876 – July 28, 1948) was an American playwright, novelist, journalist and actress. With her husband George Cram Cook, she founded the Provincetown Players, the first modern American theatre company. First know ...

, first performed in . The play 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, the president of the institution's trustees (Act II and III). Ultimately, she defies her family's wishes, and as a consequence is bound for prison herself (Act IV). The play was a 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 on April 27, 1921.Bigsby, C.W.E. Plays by Susan Glaspell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. 103. It was revived in New York City by Mirror Repertory in 1983 and

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in 2005 and was also performed at the

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in 1997.

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* The full text of
Inheritors
' at the

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* {{librivox book , title=Inheritors , author=Susan GLASPELL 1921 plays Plays by Susan Glaspell