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A Sunny Morning : Serafin Alvarez Quintero and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero

  About the authors Serafin Alvarez Quintero and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero were Spanish dramatists. They began writing for the theatre at a young age. They were popularly known as the Golden Boys of the Madrid theatre. They collaborated in almost 200 dramas depicting the life, manners, and speech of Andalusia.   A Sunny Morning is a light romantic comedy that narrates the reunion of two lovers now in their 70s meeting at a park who in their youth were passionate lovers but torn apart by the cruelty of fate. The setting of the play is a sunny morning in Madrid, Spain on a bench in the park. Summary   A Sunny Morning is a comic play by the Quinter brothers. The play consists of two stories. It begins in the park where the hero and heroine, Gonzalo and Laura meet and are old already. They had met long back in their youth and that is revealed by flashbacks during the conversation between them. They both have the habit of visiting the park and one day they meet acciden

Trifles : Susan Glaspell

  About the playwright Susan Glaspell (1876 – 1948 started working as a journalist for a local newspaper after her graduation. During her career with a daily, she had reported about the murder of John Hossack. Her one-act play ‘Trifles’  is inspired by this incident. She wrote the play close to a decade after the murder had first come to light. Wife of John Hossack had claimed that she had slain her husband with an ax, was the main accused in the murder case. She was later convicted. However, her conviction was overturned after an appeal. Susan Glaspell was the director of the Midwest Play Bureau for Federal Theatre Project in Chicago for many years.   Susan Glaspell has won many awards, including the ‘Pulitzer Prize’. She is also remembered for discovering Nobel laureate Eugene O’Neill. In all, she has written fifteen plays.   Dramatic Personae George Henderson: George is a county attorney. He is called in to investigate the murder of John Wright. He is young and a pro