SOURCE: "'Murder, She Wrote': The Genesis of Susan Glaspell's Trifles," in Theatre Journal, Vol. 44, No. 2, May 1992, pp. 141-62.
In the essay below, Ben-Zvi investigates a murder trial that Glaspell covered as a reporter as a likely basis for Trifles.
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