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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... Play,” inthe collectionAs the Curtain Rises: Black Female Visions onthe American Stage, andaforthcoming book on African American playwright Willis Richardson. Gray teaches at Catonsville Community List of illustrations Notes on ...
... Play,” inthe collectionAs the Curtain Rises: Black Female Visions onthe American Stage, andaforthcoming book on African American playwright Willis Richardson. Gray teaches at Catonsville Community List of illustrations Notes on ...
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... female dramatist of her day who was not also an actress or manager 1815 The emergence of a professional theatre companyinFrankfort, Kentucky marksthewestward movement ofAmerican theatreMary Carr Clarke's onlycomedy TheReturn from Camp ...
... female dramatist of her day who was not also an actress or manager 1815 The emergence of a professional theatre companyinFrankfort, Kentucky marksthewestward movement ofAmerican theatreMary Carr Clarke's onlycomedy TheReturn from Camp ...
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... female playwright in the early part of the twentieth century; during her fourdecade playwriting career, Crothers will bring twentyfour full length productions to theNew York stage 1874 The Lambs theatrical club established Zona Gale ...
... female playwright in the early part of the twentieth century; during her fourdecade playwriting career, Crothers will bring twentyfour full length productions to theNew York stage 1874 The Lambs theatrical club established Zona Gale ...
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... female members 1909 Rachel Crothers' A Man's World (published 1915) 1910 There are twentysix showboat theatres in operation Florenz Ziegfeld discovers Fanny Brice 1911 An estimated 16 percentof New Yorkers attend a vaudeville show each ...
... female members 1909 Rachel Crothers' A Man's World (published 1915) 1910 There are twentysix showboat theatres in operation Florenz Ziegfeld discovers Fanny Brice 1911 An estimated 16 percentof New Yorkers attend a vaudeville show each ...
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... female 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 ...
... female 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 ...
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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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