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The Glass Menagerie
- Research Starter: Tennessee WilliamsA link out to a Research Starter on Williams
- The Glass Menagerie from Drama for StudentsCitation:
"The Glass Menagerie." Drama for Students, edited by David M. Galens and Lynn M. Spampinato, vol. 1, Gale, 1998, pp. 123-139. Drama for Students, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX2692600016/GVRL.avldfs?u=avlr&sid=bookmark-GVRL.avldfs&xid=200e8926. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.
- The Glass Menagerie from Films On Demandfter what producer David Susskind called "the longest wooing for a part in a lifetime of dealing with stars," four-time Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn made her television dramatic debut as the indomitable, overbearing matriarch, Amanda Wingfield, in Tennessee Williams’ poignant 1945 memory play. The Glass Menagerie portrays a mother whose preoccupation with the past as a Southern belle and unrealistic dreams for her children’s futures threaten to smother her painfully shy, lame daughter (Joanna Miles) and her aspiring writer son (Sam Waterston). Michael Moriarty plays the gentleman caller whose visit offers false hope and disrupts the family’s precarious balance. Both Michael Moriarty and Joanna Miles won 1973–74 Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actor. Anthony Harvey was nominated by the Directors Guild of America for Best Director in 1973. (100 minutes)
Trifles
- Research Starter: TriflesLink out to a Research Starter for background and critical information on Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles”.
- From "Drama For Students"
Volume 8: Author biography; plot summary; characters; themes; style; historical context; critical overview; criticism; sources; further reading.
Susan Glaspell in Context by Call Number: EbookISBN: 9780472030101Publication Date: 2003-12-22Susan Glaspell in Context not only discusses the dramatic work of this key American author -- perhaps best known for her short story "A Jury of Her Peers" and its dramatic counterpart, Trifles -- but also places it within the theatrical, cultural, political, social, historical, and biographical climates in which Glaspell's dramas were created: the worlds of Greenwich Village and Provincetown bohemia, of the American frontier, and of American modernism. The chapter on "Trifles" begins on page 37.
Disclosing Intertextualities by Call Number: EbookISBN: 9789042020832Publication Date: 2006-01-01For the first time, this volume brings together essays by feminist, Americanist, and theater scholars who apply a variety of sophisticated critical approaches to Susan Glaspell's entire oeuvre. Glaspell's one-act play, "Trifles," and the short story that she constructed from it, "A Jury of Her Peers," have drawn the attention of many feminist critics, but the rest of her writing--the short stories, plays and novels--is largely unknown. The essays gathered here will allow students of literature, women's studies and theater studies an insight into the variety and scope of her oeuvre. "Trifles" is covered at length on pages 65 through 78.
Susan Glaspell by Call Number: EbookISBN: 9781847180049Publication Date: 2006-06-01Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist, founding member of the Provincetown Players, best-selling novelist and award-winning short fiction writer, Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) has been recovered from the marginalization of women writers that took place in the post-war period of canon-formation in America. Scholars are now fully realizing the extent to which her stories and novels, as well as all of her plays, reflect a deep engagement with the major literary movements and political events of her age. A realist concerned with issues of social justice and a modernist committed to exploring the psyche, Glaspell through her art provides thoughtful commentary, not only on feminist issues of women and gender, but on war, class, socialism, idealism, aesthetics, ethics and law. Refer to the chapter on "Foreshadowing "A Jury of Her Peers".
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- Susan Glaspell and ModernismFrom the Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights