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On Susan Glaspell's Trifles and "A jury of her peers" : centennial essays, interviews and adaptations / edited by Martha C. Carpentier and Emeline Jouve ; contributors, Linda Ben-Zvi [and thirteen others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948. Trifles.
- Glaspell, Susan.
- Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948--Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover; 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); Adaptions /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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4766-2206-X
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