1. ENGL 2306 28 October 2014

2. Today’s Plan  Return Homework  Reminders about Essay 2  Introduction to Susan Glaspell  Introduction to Trifles  Presentation  Trifles

3. Homework  Remember that your thesis needs:  Connection to meaning  Reasoning from text  So what element  Support must then connect to MEANING, not just to plot

4. Essay 2  Assignment sheet up  1,000 words  Two secondary sources  Prompts on front page  Peer Review next Thursday (11/6)

5. Susan Glaspell  Began as journalist  Wrote multiple genres  Won Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Alison’s House (about Emily Dickinson)  “Glaspell’s plays and fiction portray feminist issues such as women’s struggle for expression in a patriarchal culture, the loving yet fraught relationships between daughters and mothers, and female friendship as an essential part of women’s growth toward autonomy and selfhood. Her plays, stories, and novels explore universal themes that continue to be vital and challenging to readers and scholars today: themes of American identity, individuality vs. social conformity, the idealism of youth, the compromises of marriage, the disillusionments and hopes of aging.”  Susan Glaspell Society (http://blogs.shu.edu/glaspellsociety/)http://blogs.shu.edu/glaspellsociety/

6. Trifles  Based on knowledge from criminal trials (http://storyoftheweek.loa.org/2011/05/hossack- murder.html)http://storyoftheweek.loa.org/2011/05/hossack- murder.html  Companion piece is “A Jury of Her Peers” (http://everyweek.unl.edu/view?docId=xml/ew.issue.19 170305.xml;query=;brand=default#glaspell.19170305)http://everyweek.unl.edu/view?docId=xml/ew.issue.19 170305.xml;query=;brand=default#glaspell.19170305  Performed beginning in 1916 by Provincetown Players  http://youtu.be/f1LGwPFeSz8 http://youtu.be/f1LGwPFeSz8

7. Presentation  Lines 90-220  Mykiala Baltimore  Evan French  Sean McDermott  Regan Egge  Brittany Headen

8. Trifles  What are “trifles”?  What do we make of the canary?  How do we see gender here?  Did Mrs. Wright kill her husband? Does it matter?

9. Thursday  Introduction to Tennessee Williams  Beginning A Streetcar Named Desire  Questions about Essay 2