The Cambridge Companion to American Women PlaywrightsBrenda Murphy Cambridge University Press, 1999 M06 28 This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theatre, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to the work of one or more playwrights and to a way of thinking about plays. Together they cover significant writers such as Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Sophie Treadwell, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Megan Terry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Beth Henley and Maria Irene Fornes. Playwrights are discussed in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the Harlem Renaissance, the feminist resurgence of the 1970s and feminist dramatic theory. A detailed chronology and illustrations enhance the volume, which also includes bibliographical essays on recent criticism and on African-American women playwrights before 1930. |
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... audiences; Women's Project and Productions also founded in New York 1979 Tina Howe'sThe Art of Dining; The Art of Dining wins an Obie in 1983 Ntozake Shange's spell #7 Paula Vogel'sDesdemona 1980 Adrienne Kennedy'sOrestes andElectra ...
... audiences; Women's Project and Productions also founded in New York 1979 Tina Howe'sThe Art of Dining; The Art of Dining wins an Obie in 1983 Ntozake Shange's spell #7 Paula Vogel'sDesdemona 1980 Adrienne Kennedy'sOrestes andElectra ...
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... audiences, writers ofearly American comedies assume ahighly didactic tone and focus closely on issues ofnational identity. Theypresent incidents in Americanhistory, demonstratethe dimensionsof American citizenship,and exhort the ...
... audiences, writers ofearly American comedies assume ahighly didactic tone and focus closely on issues ofnational identity. Theypresent incidents in Americanhistory, demonstratethe dimensionsof American citizenship,and exhort the ...
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... audience;the epilogueshe wrote forSlaves in Algiers makesa most provocative statement. Having exited after playing the role of Olivia, Rowson hasherself summoned back by name, then reentersas playwright, and speaks directly to women ...
... audience;the epilogueshe wrote forSlaves in Algiers makesa most provocative statement. Having exited after playing the role of Olivia, Rowson hasherself summoned back by name, then reentersas playwright, and speaks directly to women ...
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... to the pursuit of happiness has been perverted into the pursuit of money and status. It also reminds its audience that they live in a world where appearance does not necessarily point to truth. The Tiffanys, who appear.
... to the pursuit of happiness has been perverted into the pursuit of money and status. It also reminds its audience that they live in a world where appearance does not necessarily point to truth. The Tiffanys, who appear.
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... audiences, filled the mosttheatres, and engaged thelargestnumber ofactors, not excepting even EdwinBooth and Henry Irving.Itreacheditspeak ofpopularity about 1880 and since has been along,slowdecline... in onthestageof Western theatres ...
... audiences, filled the mosttheatres, and engaged thelargestnumber ofactors, not excepting even EdwinBooth and Henry Irving.Itreacheditspeak ofpopularity about 1880 and since has been along,slowdecline... in onthestageof Western theatres ...
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Susan Glaspell and modernism | |
Sophie Treadwell | |
feminism formalism and politics | |
African American women playwrights | |
Feminist theory and contemporary drama | |
Feminist theatre of the seventiesin the United States | |
Contemporary playwrightstraditional forms | |
a feminist voice from the seventies to the present | |
Further reading 14 Contemporary American women playwrights a brief survey of selected | |
Works cited | |
thecareer of Rachel Crothers | |
The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Movement | |
Index | |
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