Show:
Characters
Vocab
He Said, She Said
Set, Props, and Stage Direction
Playwrights
100
The gentleman caller in Glass Menagerie.
Who is Jim O'Connor.
100
Any nonverbal action that engages the attention of an audience.
What is stage business?
100
Identify this speaker: "I couldn't go back there! I -- threw up -- on the floor!"
Who is Laura Wingfield?
100
Mrs. Hale puts this piece of evidence in her pocket at the end of the play Trifles.
What is the dead pet canary?
100
Born Thomas Lanier Williams.
Who is Tennessee Williams?
200
Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale are characters in this play.
What is Trifles?
200
When a character addresses the audience directly.
What is aside?
200
Identify this speaker: "Eat food leisurely, son, and really enjoy it. A well-cooked meal has lots of delicate flavors that have to be held in the mouth for appreciation. So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!"
Who is Amanda Wingfield?
200
In the play Trifles, Mrs. Wright is very concerned that these may have frozen.
What are her preserves?
200
This playwright was born in Davenport, Iowa.
Who is Susan Glaspell?
300
Has the nickname Shakespeare in Glass Menagerie.
Who is Tom Wingfield.
300
A hint of what is to come.
What is foreshadowing.
300
Identify the speaker: "Mrs. Peters, look at this one. Here, this is the one she was working on, and look at the sewing! All the rest of it has been so nice and even. And look at this! It's all over the place! Why, it looks as if she didn't know what she was about!"
Who is Mrs. Hale.
300
This prop is often spotlighted during the play Glass Menagerie.
What is the father's portrait.
300
This playwright's family closely resembles the fictional Wingfields.
Who is Tennessee Williams.
400
These two male characters (one important male character in the play Trifles and one important male character in the play Glass Menagerie) never appear in scene.
Who are Mr. Wright and the father.
400
The general point or truth about human beings that may be drawn from the play.
What is a theme?
400
Identify this speaker: "Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion."
Who is Tom Wingfield?
400
In a particularly revealing piece of stage business, Mrs. Wright is found sitting in her rocking chair doing this to her apron.
What is pleating.
400
This playwright notes that the screen devices in his play have been included in the published manuscript but omitted from the original acted version of the play.
Who is Tennessee Williams?
500
This female character is the sheriff's wife in the play Trifles.
Who is Mrs. Peters.
500
Customary methods of presenting an action, usual recognizable devices that an audience is willing to accept.
What are conventions?
500
Identify this speaker: "I'm going to the opium dens! Yes, opium dens, dens of vice and criminals' hangs, Mother. I've joined the Hogan gang, I'm a hired assassin, I carry a tommy-gun in a violin case! I run a string of cat-houses in the Valley! They call me Killer, Killer Wingfield..."
Who is Tom Wingfield?
500
The unicorn figurine in Glass Menagerie often sits on a shelf with these animals.
What are horses?
500
Susan Glaspell rewrote her play Trifles as a short story. The short story was titled:
What is "A Jury of Her Peers"?