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Absent Character In Susan Glaspell's Trifles And Inheritors
University of Sarajevo
Faculty of Philosophy Sarajevo
English Department
Introduction to Contemporary American Drama

Essay:
The Role of the Absent Character in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles & Inheritors

Student: Huanita Prlja Instructor: Ifeta Čirić – Fazlija, M.A.

Sarajevo, 10th April 2012
Contents

I Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

II The Absent Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

III Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Paul P. Reuben “Chapter 8: Susan Glaspell.” PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide. Web. URL: http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap8/glaspell.html, last accessed April 05th 2012
[ 2 ]. Suzy Clarkson Holstein. “Silent Justice in a Different Key: Glaspell 's Trifles.” Midwest Quarterly 44.3 (2003): 282. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. April 05th 2012. p. 283
[ 3 ]. Suzy Clarkson Holstein. “Silent Justice in a Different Key: Glaspell 's Trifles.” Midwest Quarterly 44.3 (2003): 282. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. April 05th 2012. p. 283
[ 4 ]. Ibid, p. 154.
[ 5 ]. Emeline Jouve. Nation and National Identity in Susan Glaspell 's 'Inheritors ' (1921). Université de Toulouse. 03/07/2010. Web. p. 1.
[ 6 ]. Ibid.
[ 7 ]. Susan Glaspell. “Inheritors”. Plays. Project Gutenberg, 2004. Web. URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10623/10623-h/10623-h.htm, last accessed April 05th 2012. p. 48.
[ 8 ]. Ibid, p. 49.
[ 9 ]. Noelia Hernando-Real. "Drama and Cultural Pluralism in the America of Susan Glaspell’s Inheritors." In Interrogating America Through Theatre and Performance. Eds. William W. Demastes and Iris Smith Fischer. Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. p.

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