Glaspell, Susan (1876–1948)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Ellen Gainor
Keyword(s):  
Short Fiction ◽  
State Legislature ◽  
Criminal Trials ◽  
American Modernism ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Founding Member ◽  
Des Moines ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Susan Glaspell ◽  
Provincetown Players

Susan Glaspell shaped the development of American Modernism not only as an award-winning author but also as a founding member of the Provincetown Players, the groundbreaking theater company that nurtured other American modernists such as Eugene O’Neill. Although she spent most of her career on the East Coast, Glaspell hailed from Davenport, Iowa, and attended Drake University in Des Moines. While still a teenager, she began working in journalism; after college, she joined the staff of the Des Moines Daily News, covering the State Legislature and criminal trials. Glaspell also began to write short fiction and soon decided to pursue creative writing exclusively, publishing her first novel, The Glory of the Conquered (1909), while continuing to place stories in leading magazines.

scholarly journals An Arabic translation of Susan Glaspell's play, "Trifles"

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Abbas Brashi
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Arabic Translation ◽  
Des Moines ◽  
Emotionally Abused ◽  
The Right ◽  
Susan Glaspell

This is an Arabic translation of “Trifles”, a famous play by prominent American playwright Susan Glaspell (1876-1948). Glaspell was one of the founders of the Playwright’s Theatre, formerly recognized as the Provincetown Players in the United States of America. She wrote ten novels, twenty plays, and more than forty short stories. “Trifles” is a one-act play written in 1916.2 It is considered to be one of Susan Glaspell’s major works. “Trifles” is a play that is frequently anthologized in American literature textbooks. The play was based on the murder case of the sixty-year-old farmer, John Hossack, which was covered widely by Susan Glaspell while she was working as a journalist with the Des Moines Daily News immediately after her graduation from Drake University. Accordingly, “Trifles” presents the murder of an oppressive husband by his emotionally abused wife. It is an attempt to re-address the John Hossack case from the point of view of women who might not have a similar viewpoint of the nature of marital disagreement and domestic unhappiness.3 The murder happened in a period where women had insufficient protection from domestic abuse, and had not yet obtained the right to vote. The main characters of the play are: 1- The Sheriff, Mr. Henry Peters; 2- Mrs. Peters(wife of the Sheriff); 3- Mr. Lewis Hale (a neighbour of Mr. and Mrs. Wright); 4- Mrs. Hale (wife of Mr. Hale); and 5- The County Attorney, Mr. George Henderson. The off-stage characters are: 1- Mr. John Write (the victim); 2-Mrs. Minnie Write (the victim’s wife); 3- Frank (Deputy Sheriff); 4- Harry (a helper of Mr.Lewis Hale); 5- Dr. Lloyd (the coroner). The play addressed the life of Mrs. Wright who becameenraged and took the life of her abusive and violent husband after he killed her bird. The motivefor murder was the killing of the canary because it represented freedom for her. Mrs. Wright, theprotagonist, lived through a series of emotions, such as rage, shock, lack of feeling, rejection,and deep sadness, mainly because the loss of her bird was sudden, surprising and unforeseen.4 She considered the death of her bird as a great calamity, as she lost something extremely crucialin her life. Susan Glaspell chose the title of the play from a line stated by one of the characters inthe play, Mr. Lewis Hale, when he says: “Well, women are used to worrying about trifles.” The title demonstrates irony when Mrs. Minnie Wright seemed to be more concerned about triflesthan she is about being under arrest for murder. This English play, “Trifles,” was chosen to betranslated into Arabic because of its significance and association to the Arab culture. For thesake of wide readability, it was translated into Modern Standard Arabic (formal Arabic), as it isquite the same in all Arab countries.

In Camera Inspections of Privileged Records in Sexual Assault Trials: Balancing Defendants' Rights and State Interests Under Massachusetts's Bishop Test

1995 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-164
Author(s):  
Ellen M. Crowley
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
State Legislatures ◽  
State Legislature ◽  
Fair Trial ◽  
Criminal Trials ◽  
Public Scrutiny ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
Case Basis

A sexual assault trial requires a court to balance evidentiary privileges enacted by a state legislature against a criminal defendant's constitutional trial rights. State legislatures enact various privileges which either limit or prohibit the discovery of confidential communications in criminal trials. Such statutes reflect a firmly based legislative effort to protect citizens’ private and personal confidences from unwarranted public scrutiny. When a defendant charged with sexual assault seeks to compel discovery of the victim's privileged medical, psychiatric, or counseling records, a conflict inevitably arises. States and victims assert that courts must respect statutory assurances of confidentiality; defendants assert that their constitutional right to a fair trial and their right to confront the witnesses and evidence against them mandates disclosure. Resolution of this pressing conflict requires a careful balancing of both the state's and defendant's interests on a case by case basis.

scholarly journals Humor, ironía y actualidad en la dramaturgia de Susan Glaspell

La Colmena ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Catalina Iliescu-Gheorghiu
Keyword(s):  
Susan Glaspell ◽  
Provincetown Players

Reseña crítica de Nieves Alberola Crespo, Susan Glaspell y los Provincetown Players. Laboratorio de emociones (1915-1917), ISBN: 9788491340829, Valencia, Publicaciones de la Universidad de Valencia, 2017, 180 pp.

Longer News Turned Elite

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin G. Barnhurst
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Early Years ◽  
American Modernism ◽  
Daily News ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Political Office ◽  
Harsh Criticism

This chapter considers the elitism in digital media. During the early years of the Internet in the 1990s, there were high expectations for new media and harsh criticism for legacy news. A decade later a majority of U.S. newspapers had an online presence, and reporters and editors claimed that technology was changing what they do. However, U.S. news followed, and even continued in digital venues, the century-spanning trend of growing longer. The chapter argues that long stories are a sign of status in line with the elitism of American modernism. Elite writers appear to write the longest and elite readers to read the longest daily news. Efforts are made to serve the elites because they are the ones most likely to contribute to political parties and run for political office. In contrast, short, realist news articles match the predilections and limited time and resources of the non-elite: the wage laborer, the working parent, the immigrant learning the language, the less educated, the young, the poor.

scholarly journals Farewell to Mushtaqur Rahman

1999 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 157-158
Author(s):  
Dilnawaz A. Siddiqui
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Vice President ◽  
State University ◽  
Iowa State University ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Founding Member ◽  
Louisiana State University ◽  
Des Moines ◽  
The University

Professor Mushtaqur Rahman, a renowned Muslim geographer, who wasborn on July 1,1933 in Agra (India), died of cardiac arrest at Des Moines,Iowa (USA), on November 5, 1999. He had heart problems for severalyears that had slowed down his academic and social service activities butnever deterred him from performing them.In 1947, he migrated to Pakistan, a country he loved dearly and lived toserve throughout his life. Still, his contributions went beyond it in a numberof ways. Having done his B.A. (1953) and M.A. (1955) from theUniversity of Karachi, he taught at Islamiah College, Karachi, and SindhUniversity, Hyderabad for a few years. He earned his Ph.D. degree inCultural Geography, from Louisiana State University in 1960, and didpostdoctoral research at the University of Geisen, Germany in 1966-67. Heserved in the Department of Geography, University of Karachi, Pakistanfrom 1963 to 1969. He was appointed Professor of Geography in theDepartment of Anthropology, Iowa State University (ISU), Ames, Iowa.He served ISU till his retirement in May 1998.Dr.. Rahman’s contribution to the field of Cultural Geography of SouthAsia has been recognized worldwide. In Professor Rahman was combinedan activist and quiet researcher. He was a founding member of the OldStudents’ Association of Karachi University (OSAKU), which he served invarious capacities. Besides carrying out advisory duties for the MuslimStudents Association at ISU, he organized for its students and faculty manystudy tours of Pakistan and brought a number of Pakistani scholars to IowaState.His main scholarly contributions are through his very long, sincere, dedicatedservice to the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS) andthrough his many worthy publications in the field of political and culturalgeography. Not only did he serve AMSS as its vice president with one ofits founders, Dr. AbdulHamid AbuSulayman, but he was also elected its ...

scholarly journals American Communist Idealism in George Cram Cook’s The Athenian Women (1918)

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-25
Author(s):  
Edith Hall
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
World War ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Indirect Impact ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Susan Glaspell ◽  
Provincetown Players

The Athenian Women, written by the American George Cram Cook with input from Susan Glaspell, is a serious, substantial play drawing chiefly on Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusae. It premiered on March 1st 1918 with the Provincetown Players. Cook was convinced of parallels between the Peloponnesian War and World War I. He believed there had been communists in Periclean Athens comparable to those who were making strides in Russia (in 1922 to become the USSR) and the socialists in America, amongst whom he and Glaspell counted themselves. The paper examines the text and production contexts of The Athenian Women, traces its relationships with several different ancient Greek authors including Thucydides as well as Aristophanes, and identifies the emphatically stated socialist and feminist politics articulated by the two main ‘proto-communist’ characters, Lysicles and Aspasia. Although the play was not particularly successful, its production had a considerable indirect impact on the future directions taken by left-wing theatre in the USA, through the subsequent dramas of Glaspell and Eugene O’Neill for the Provincetown Players.

Little Theater Movement

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy Chansky
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
Amateur Theater ◽  
Commercial Theatre ◽  
American Society ◽  
Many Sources ◽  
Susan Glaspell ◽  
New Yorkers ◽  
Provincetown Players ◽  
Washington Square

The Little Theater Movement comprised a web of amateur theater activities undertaken across much of the United States between 1912 and 1925. Little Theater opposed commercialism; its proponents believed that theater could be used for the betterment of American society and for self-expression. Little Theater founders and participants included playwrights, professors, liberal political activists, social workers, lawyers, heiresses, poets, actors, aesthetes, journalists, housewives, and students. They drew inspiration from the best-known work of the European Independent Theater Movement and from the design aesthetics of Adolphe Appia, Edward Gordon Craig, and Max Reinhardt. Eventually their values affected commercial theatre. The Little Theater Movement is best known for four of its earliest companies: the Provincetown Players, the Washington Square Players, the Chicago Little Theater, and the Neighborhood Playhouse. No two of these were alike, suggesting the breadth and variety of the movement’s undertakings. The Provincetown Players started in 1915, when a group of New York-based writers and activists assembled at their summer beach haunt in Massachusetts to present short, original plays. The founders were idealist George Cram Cook and his writer wife, Susan Glaspell; the group is perhaps best known for giving Eugene O’Neill his start as a produced playwright. The Washington Square Players was also started by a group of iconoclastic New Yorkers. The WSP’s mission was not, however, the production of member-written, American plays, but rather the production of a variety of plays from many sources.

scholarly journals FRONTLINE: Jill Emberson: A lifetime of bearing witness to help others

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-161
Author(s):  
Wendy Bacon
Keyword(s):  
Ovarian Cancer ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
And Gender

Jill Emberson, an award-winning Australian journalist of Tongan heritage died in 2019. She achieved national attention for her campaign to provide a voice for all women suffering from ovarian cancer and for more and fairer funding for ovarian cancer research. Through an analysis of her programmes and interviews with colleagues, this article focuses on Emberson’s journalism from daily news coverage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander protests in 1982 for public radio to her Meet the Mob podcast series in 2014. It focuses on her significant radio documentaries on women in the Pacific for the ABCs’ feminist Coming Out Show (1986) and Ties that Bind, which was about Tonga, including the Tongan diaspora in Australia (2009). It argues that Emberson’s own journey to discover her cultural identity shaped her as a reflective journalist whose work was underpinned by a concern for social justice, marginalised communities, the impacts of colonisation and gender discrimination. 

The Women of Provincetown, 1915–1922. By Cheryl Black. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002; xvi + 224 pp. $29.95 cloth.

2004 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-122
Author(s):  
Anne Larabee
Keyword(s):  
Primary Sources ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Eugene O'neill ◽  
University Of Alabama ◽  
American Drama ◽  
Susan Glaspell ◽  
Eugene O’Neill ◽  
Provincetown Players ◽  
Detailed Work

Anyone who has encountered the Provincetown Players, the art theatre that launched Susan Glaspell and Eugene O'Neill, knows what an amazingly vibrant and creative community it was, a progressive smart set teaming with ideas for a new American drama. In The Women of Provincetown, Cheryl Black gives us the most richly detailed work on the Provincetown to date, drawing on an impressive range of primary sources. For this reason alone, the book is essential reading for theatre historians and other scholars working on the emergence of American drama. A playwright, actor, director, and dramaturge herself, Black has enough experience to explore the range of roles needed to make theatre, providing a context for the predominantly literary studies of Provincetown plays.

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