Premium Content From Courtroom to Stage: Susan Glaspell's "Trifles"
By Mark Anthony Cianfrani - May 02, 2007
Susan Glaspell was only twenty-four-years-old when she covered the Hossack murder in Indianola, Iowa as a journalist. It would be many years before Glaspell would write her breakout play Trifles, a play that bears remarkable similarities to the real-life murder of farmer John Hossack. Inside the wooden doors of the Indianola courthouse, young…
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