Susan Glaspell: Trifles (1916) by Abbey Woehler https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na This Padlet explores the biographical, critical, cultural, and historical contexts of Trifles by Susan Glaspell. en-us 2017-04-25 18:03:23 UTC 2023-01-24 19:07:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png Live Play maneetparmar85 https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168203509 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=304nvr25LoI]]> 2017-04-25 18:34:12 UTC https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168203509 By Abbey Woehler aw221598 https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168210715 Author Padlet]]> 2017-04-25 18:58:11 UTC https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168210715 By Maneet Parmar maneetparmar85 https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168212754 2017-04-25 19:05:38 UTC https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168212754 1) Biographical Context aw221598 https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168726262 https://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature/notread/author.html]]> 2017-04-27 18:28:13 UTC https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168726262 Historical Artifact maneetparmar85 https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168727391 credit to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_Kingdom]]> 2017-04-27 18:31:56 UTC https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168727391 2) Biographical Context aw221598 https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168728250 http://vccslitonline.vccs.edu/Trifles/biography.htm]]> 2017-04-27 18:34:58 UTC https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168728250 Photo Credit - Data USA aw221598 https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168734574 https://datausa.io/profile/geo/davenport-ia/]]> 2017-04-27 18:57:44 UTC https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168734574 3) Biographical Context aw221598 https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168743959 http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/bookshopdoor/signature.cfm?item=16#1]]> 2017-04-27 19:38:16 UTC https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168743959 Who is Susan Glaspell? Article maneetparmar85 https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168744120 https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/195200428/6de184567c81893f3ad5871763f813df/glaspell_article.pdf]]> 2017-04-27 19:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168744120 Critical Context quote by Shih, Yi-chin aw221598 https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168746200 "Trifles is full of Midwestern color. Arthur E. Waterman delineates 'the Midwestern qualities of the play' as the following: 'With its precise realism, exact details, accurate dialogue, and conscious awareness of certain Midwestern ingredients, it is local color on stage' (145). The stage is very Midwestern: a gloomy kitchen, unwashed pans, unbaked bread, uncompleted work, an empty rocking chair, a plain table, and a stove that does not work. All of them represent the bleak, empty and closed geographical background of the Middle West."
http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~bcla/e_book/78/7808.pdf]]> 2017-04-27 19:46:47 UTC https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168746200 Critical context quote by Ken Jaworowski maneetparmar85 https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168746700 "“Trifles,” written by Susan Glaspell and first performed in 1916, has become a staple of theater studies. Though the play is celebrated as an early feminist drama, it stands on its own as an engrossing story. In the tale, two women, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, gradually uncover the motive for a murder, while their male counterparts are blinded by ignorance and insensitivity. The women examine the details — the trifles — of the suspect’s life to discover a deeper meaning and in the end solve a mystery by exposing a tragedy.

As performed here, “Trifles” is poignant and, occasionally, pretentious. Extended pauses have been inserted throughout, creating long silences;"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/theater/reviews/02trifles.html

]]> 2017-04-27 19:49:01 UTC https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168746700 Critical Context quote by Carme Manuel aw221598 https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168747970 "Trifles is not merely local color drama caught up in
the web of the first decades of twentieth-century American regionalism, but rather a
direct result of the tenets the American feminist movement was preaching at that moment. In this respect, Helene Keysar's description of the play as a work that 'reveals the complexities of women's lives and subverts assumed nolions of women's social powerlessness' (22) seems to be more operative to my purposes of analysis. On the other hand and following Gilbert and Gubar's definition, Trifles' dramatic effect on the audience rests on building our complicity with the women characters on stage
and, as such, the play presupposes a spectator actively involved with it. Paraphrasing Louise M. Rosenblatt's definition of a poem, Trifles is what the viewer lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to that text." http://institucional.us.es/revistas/estudios/7/art_05.pdf]]> 2017-04-27 19:55:21 UTC https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168747970 3) Historical Context maneetparmar85 https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168750254 http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/19th-amendment]]> 2017-04-27 20:07:04 UTC https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168750254 Image artifact maneetparmar85 https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168753180 credit to http://salon.glenrose.net/default.asp?view=plink&id=8307]]> 2017-04-27 20:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/168753180 Audio of Trifles aw221598 https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/169074852 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBAMcE-sHvM]]> 2017-04-30 19:27:41 UTC https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/169074852 2) Historical Context maneetparmar85 https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/169283320 https://scribblingwomen.chass.ncsu.edu/]]> 2017-05-01 20:27:36 UTC https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/169283320 1) Cultural Context maneetparmar85 https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/169284160 http://1920womensrightsmonopoli.weebly.com/]]> 2017-05-01 20:33:12 UTC https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/169284160 1) Historical Context aw221598 https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/169304602 https://americanfiction.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2010/06/Trifles-Genesis.pdf]]> 2017-05-01 23:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/169304602 3) Cultural Context aw221598 https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/169306423 https://edsitement.neh.gov/launchpad-jury-her-peers]]> 2017-05-01 23:59:30 UTC https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/169306423 2) Cultural Context aw221598 https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/169307082 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/500710/pdf]]> 2017-05-02 00:06:40 UTC https://padlet.com/aw221598/8odwxcvqq5na/wish/169307082