Trifles Trivia

Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge

George Cram Cook, Glaspell's husband, gave up a promising academic career to be a socialist farmer (Source).

When the company politics of the Provincetown Players got to be too much for Susan and George, they ran away to Greece to live like shepherds (Source).

Glaspell actually thought up the idea for Trifles in the fish house-turned-theater where it was first performed (Source).

Glaspell was inspired by the writing of Black Hawk, the Indian chief whose former land she grew up on in Iowa (Source).