The Cambridge Companion to American Women PlaywrightsThis 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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... and the Theatre Hall of Fame (1974) Sophie Treadwell beginsa shortlived vaudeville careerasa character artist 1907 Playwright Martha Morton organizes the Society ofDramatic Authors because theAmerican Dramatists Clubwillnot accept ...
... and the Theatre Hall of Fame (1974) Sophie Treadwell beginsa shortlived vaudeville careerasa character artist 1907 Playwright Martha Morton organizes the Society ofDramatic Authors because theAmerican Dramatists Clubwillnot accept ...
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... Henley will be known for creating women characters who define themselves apart from men; her first New York production willearnher a PulitzerPrize EmilyMann born; Mann will become knownfor herdocumentary dramas, her focus on gender ...
... Henley will be known for creating women characters who define themselves apart from men; her first New York production willearnher a PulitzerPrize EmilyMann born; Mann will become knownfor herdocumentary dramas, her focus on gender ...
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... and a Rosamond Gilder Award Marsha Norman's 'night,Mother, a Pulitzer Prize and SusanSmith Blackburn Prizewinner Anna Deavere Smith's On the Road: A Search for American Character Wendy Wasserstein's Guggenheim Fellowship enables ...
... and a Rosamond Gilder Award Marsha Norman's 'night,Mother, a Pulitzer Prize and SusanSmith Blackburn Prizewinner Anna Deavere Smith's On the Road: A Search for American Character Wendy Wasserstein's Guggenheim Fellowship enables ...
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Women playwrightsbrought anadditional itemto this nationalistic agenda: they created characters thatattempted to give tangibleform to the ideaof theAmerican woman. Defining the United Statesin terms of the unparalleled freedom it ...
Women playwrightsbrought anadditional itemto this nationalistic agenda: they created characters thatattempted to give tangibleform to the ideaof theAmerican woman. Defining the United Statesin terms of the unparalleled freedom it ...
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... who dressed elegantly and was the only lawyer in Massachusetts to owna carriage,into thedandified and luxury loving Beau Trumps),it is possible that these linesrefer to real actions or character traits of Ruggles.
... who dressed elegantly and was the only lawyer in Massachusetts to owna carriage,into thedandified and luxury loving Beau Trumps),it is possible that these linesrefer to real actions or character traits of Ruggles.
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Contenido
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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Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights Cambridge Companions to Literature |
| Editor | Brenda Murphy |
| Editor | Cambridge University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 1139825615, 9781139825610 |
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