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Trifles by Susan Glaspell

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Trifles Quotes
172 words, approx. 1 pages
It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge a fly. Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones. A small leak will sink a great ship....


Author Biography

Name: Susan Glaspell
Variant Name: Susan Keating Glaspell, Susan (Keating) Glaspell
Birth Date: July 1, 1876July 1, 1882
Death Date: July 27, 1948
Nationality: American
Gender: Female

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Biography of Susan Glaspell
4993 words, approx. 16.6 pages
As early as 1922, Susan Glaspell was being hailed as "the playwright of woman's selfhood." Currently, this is the major claim for her lasting importance as a dramatist. Glaspell, however, was not merely a feminist but also one of the few experimental pla...
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Biography of Susan Glaspell
4992 words, approx. 16.6 pages
Susan Glaspell was one of the founding figures of modern American drama and, along with Eugene O'Neill, one of the most prominent playwrights of the little theater movement in the 1910s and 1920s. The value of her contribution to American drama rests lar...
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Biography of Susan Glaspell
3276 words, approx. 10.9 pages
Susan Glaspell was a Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist and best-selling author who wrote fourteen plays, nine novels, and over fifty short stories, essays, and articles. Her life parallels the intellectual and cultural patterns that were developing in Ame...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Trifles Information
476 words, approx. 2 pages
Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. Her short story, A Jury of her Peers, was adapted from the play a year after its debut. It was first performed by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Massachusetts on August 8,...


News and Journals
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Variety
Trifling With Fate.
07/31/2000: 529 words, approx. 2 pages
A Separate Star production. Produced by Michael Bergmann, Lexi Robertson, Sarah Winkler. Directed, written by Michael Bergmann. Camera (colin, video), Michael Bergmann; editors, Michael Bergmann, Ardythe Ashley; music, Doug Scofield; production designer, Meredith Bergmann; art director, Sarah Baker; costume designer, Alicia Mugetti; sound,...
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Recipe is nothing to trifle with
06/24/2001: 518 words, approx. 2 pages
Desperation dinners Recipe is nothing to trifle with By BEVERLY MILLS AND ALICIA ROSS United Feature Syndicate Inc. Sunday, June 24, 2001 This year, my house is the gathering place before we head out to see the Fourth of...
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The New York Observer
Real Charms of Bourgeoisie: Witty Parisian Trifle Is True Escape
2/25/2007: 1,347 words, approx. 5 pages
Danièle Thompson’s Avenue Montaigne (Fauteuils d’Orchestre), from a screenplay by Ms. Thompson and her son, Christopher Thompson (in French with English subtitles), plays out as a perky Parisian Right Bank boulevard comedy with more than the usual traumatically life-altering situations among the self-consciously arty types...
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Reuters North American News Service
FACTBOX-Venezuelan Chavez's insults of world leaders
11/28/2007: 386 words, approx. 1 pages
(Reuters) - Venezuela's anti-U.S. President Hugo Chavez, who faces a tight referendum vote Sunday to approve a constitutional overhaul, has often publicly insulted world leaders, including President Bush. Venezuela is currently caught up in diplomatic disputes with Colombia and Spain following verbal confrontations with...
 


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Trifles by Susan Glaspell

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