On Susan Glaspell's Trifles and "e;A Jury of Her Peers"e;
On a wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Greenwich Village bohemians gathered in the summer of 1916, Susan Glaspell was inspired by a sensational murder trial to write Trifles, a play about two women who hide a Midwestern farm wife''s motive for murdering her abusive husband. Following successful productions of the play, Glaspell became the "mother of American drama." Her short story ve...
On a wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Greenwich Village bohemians gathered in the summer of 1916, Susan Glaspell was inspired by a sensational murder trial to write Trifles, a play about two women who hide a Midwestern farm wife''s motive for murdering her abusive husband. Following successful productions of the play, Glaspell became the "mother of American drama." Her short story ve...