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

Other author Carpentier, Martha Celeste, editor.
Other author Jouve, Emeline, 1982- editor.
Format Book
PublicationJefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]
Descriptionvi, 229 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Portion of title Susan Glaspell's Trifles and "A jury of her peers"
Portion of title Trifles
Portion of title Jury of her peers
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
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 219-223) and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2015026397
ISBN9781476662114 (softcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1476662118 (softcover : alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 40025421658

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