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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,...


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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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Vibe.com
NYPD Traffic Agents Protest Against Hot 97's Miss Jones
6/2/2006: 379 words, approx. 1 pages
Listeners who tuned in to Hot 97 on March 22 heard Jones bashing and advocating violence towards the NYPD Traffic Enforcement Agents, comments which stemmed from an earlier confrontation Jones had with an agent when she parked her car at a broken meter. She allegedly...
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AP News
Today in history - Feb. 24
2/24/2007: 536 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Saturday, Feb. 24, the 55th day of 2007. There are 310 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Feb. 24, 1868, the U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson following his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson...
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Review: 'Hot Ghetto Mess' tepid, tired
7/26/2007: 571 words, approx. 2 pages
If you truly want to see the definition of a hot ghetto mess, turn on VH1 on any given Sunday and watch one of the endless reruns of "Flavor of Love" or any of its other spinoffs and variations. Chances are, you'll be thoroughly educated...
 


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Trifles by Susan Glaspell

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