Research Catalog

Title

On Susan Glaspell's Trifles and "A jury of her peers" : centennial essays, interviews and adaptations / edited by Martha C. Carpentier and Emeline Jouve.

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Carpentier, Martha Celeste,
• Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948.
• Jouve, Emeline, 1982-

Description

vi, 229 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"On a wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in the summer of 1916, Susan Glaspell was inspired by the sensational murder trial she had covered as a young reporter to write Trifles. Following successful productions of the play, Glaspell became the mother of American drama"--

Alternative Title

• Jury of her peers
• Susan Glaspell's Trifles and "A jury of her peers"
• Trifles

Subject

• Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948
• Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948 > Criticism and interpretation
• Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948
• Trifles (Glaspell, Susan)

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: An Iconic Work at 100 Years / Martha C. Carpenter and Emeline Jouve -- pt. 1 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 Katherine 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 -- pt. 2 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.

ISBN

• 9781476662114
• 1476662118
• 9781476622064 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015026397

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library