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  2. Trifles (play) - Wikipedia

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    Susan Glaspell's adaptation "A Jury of Her Peers" is a story version of her play Trifles. This short story is similar to Trifles. Trifles, a chamber opera in one act, premiered in Berkeley, California, at the Live Oak Theatre on June 17 and 19, 2010 was composed by John G. Bilotta and its libretto was written by John F. McGrew.

  3. Fourteen (play) - Wikipedia

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    Fourteen. (play) Fourteen is a play by Alice Gerstenberg. This one-act social satire was first performed October 7, 1919 at the Maitland Playhouse, 332 Stockton Street, San Francisco, on a bill with three other one-act plays. [1] The San Francisco Chronicle remarked that it "gayly lampoons the question of dinner entertainments". [1]

  4. The Monkey's Paw - Wikipedia

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    Bill's Paper Chase. " The Monkey's Paw " is a horror short story by English author W. W. Jacobs. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in 1902, and was reprinted in his third collection of short stories, The Lady of the Barge, later that year. [1] In the story, three wishes are granted to the owner of The Monkey's Paw, but the wishes come with ...

  5. Children's literature - Wikipedia

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    E. T. A. Hoffmann's tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" was published in 1816 in a German collection of stories for children, Kinder-Märchen. It is the first modern short story to introduce bizarre, odd and grotesque elements in children's literature and thereby anticipates Lewis Carroll's tale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

  6. Susan Glaspell - Wikipedia

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    Her short stories were regularly printed in the era's top periodicals, and her New York Times obituary states that she was "one of the nation's most widely-read novelists." In 1940, a new generation of influential Broadway-based critics began publishing derogatory reviews of her plays, having a sizable effect on her long-term standing.

  7. Plot device - Wikipedia

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    A plot device or plot mechanism [1] is any technique in a narrative used to move the plot forward. [2] A clichéd plot device may annoy the reader and a contrived or arbitrary device may confuse the reader, causing a loss of the suspension of disbelief. However, a well-crafted plot device, or one that emerges naturally from the setting or ...

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