H.E. Bates Companion

In World in Ripeness (120), Bates writes that he followed his play Day of Glory "with a dark, Ibsen-like piece called The Spider Love...but its demands on actors are incontestably formidable and it is probably for this reason that it has never been performed." Eads (61), examining a "carbon copy in possession of the author's son, Richard Bates," describes the typescript as 141 pages stapled with plain brown paper covers.