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On a wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Greenwich Village bohemians gathered in the summer of 1916, Susan Glaspell was inspired by a sensational murder trial to write Trifles, a play about two women who hide a Midwestern farm wife's motive for murdering her abusive husband. Following successful productions of the play, Glaspell became the "mother of American drama." Her short story version of Trifles, "A Jury of Her Peers," reached an unprecedented one million readers in 1917. The play and the story have since been taught in classrooms across America and Trifles is regularly revived on stages around the world.
This collection of fresh essays celebrates the centennial of Trifles and "A Jury of Her Peers," with departures from established Glaspell scholarship. Interviews with theater people are included along with two original works inspired by Glaspell's iconic writings.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction: An Iconic Work at 100 Years (Martha C. Carpentier and Emeline Jouve)
Part I: Scholars' Voices
Forensic Science and the Aesthetics of Affect in "A Jury of Her Peers" (Catherine Q. Forsa)
Seeing, Looking, Pointing: A Linguistic Reading of Trifles and "A Jury of Her Peers" (Marie-Pierre Maechling-Mounie)
Silent Partners: The "Trifling" Nature of Language in the Theatre of Susan Glaspell and Samuel Beckett (Linda Ben-Zvi)
Susan Glaspell's Radicalization of Women's Crime Fiction: Female Reading Strategies from Anna Katharine Green to Sara Paretsky (Ilka Saal and Mareike Dolata)
Powerful Gazes: The Right to Look in Film Adaptations of Trifles and "A Jury of Her Peers" (Noelia Hernando-Real)
Susan Glaspell's Gendered Detectives: Suspense and the Threat to Masculine Identity in Radio and Screen Adaptations from 1930 to 1961 (Drew Eisenhauer)
Part II: Practitioners' Voices
Interviews
Trifles and "A Jury of Her Peers" on Film: Interview with Filmmakers Sally Heckel and Pamela Gaye Walker (Sharon Friedman)
Producing Susan Glaspell's Plays: Interview with Founders of the Orange Tree Theatre, Sam Walters and Auriol Smith (Barbara Ozieblo)
Trifles in Production at the Orange Tree Theatre, 2008: Interview with Director Helen Leblique (Barbara Ozieblo)
Adaptations / Creations
Sometimes I Sing: Freeing the Voice of Minnie Wright in Trifles (Milbre Burch)
From Dramatic Time to Operatic Time: Creating an Opera Libretto from the Play Trifles (John F. McGrew and John G. Bilotta)
Sometimes I Sing: An Original Dramatic Monolgue Inspired by Trifles (Milbre Burch)
Trifles: An Original Operatic Libretto (John F. McGrew)
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
