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Violence
Some
Moderate; a murder and its domestic context are the subject of Trifles and related plays
Language
None
No strong language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Significant psychological depth; Glaspell's work turns on the interior lives of women dismissed by the men around them
What this book is about
Susan Glaspell's collected short plays include Trifles — one of the most frequently performed one-act plays in American theater history — along with The Outside, The Verge, Inheritors, and others. Glaspell co-founded the Provincetown Players with Eugene O'Neill and brought a feminist perspective and psychological complexity to American drama a generation before it became common. Trifles, about a woman accused of murdering her husband and the women who silently understand why, is a masterwork.
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Murder themes in Trifles
Feminist psychological drama
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