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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She isthe author of Buckskins, Bullets, and Business: A History of Buffalo Bill'sWild West, as wellas anumber of articles onthe nineteenthcentury American theatre.Sheis currentlyengaged ina research project centeredonSouthern Illinois' ...
She isthe author of Buckskins, Bullets, and Business: A History of Buffalo Bill'sWild West, as wellas anumber of articles onthe nineteenthcentury American theatre.Sheis currentlyengaged ina research project centeredonSouthern Illinois' ...
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... sometimes anonymouslyor pseudonymously, a large body ofworkfor the eighteenthand nineteenthcentury American stage, ... of the mode of dramathat had thegreatest impact on the American theatre in the nineteenth century – melodrama.
... sometimes anonymouslyor pseudonymously, a large body ofworkfor the eighteenthand nineteenthcentury American stage, ... of the mode of dramathat had thegreatest impact on the American theatre in the nineteenth century – melodrama.
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... 1800 The first play to be called a ''melodrama'' is produced in France; the melodramatic form,especially asrendered bywomen dramatists of the nineteenth century,has agreat impacton the American theatre 1813 Louisa Medina born (d.
... 1800 The first play to be called a ''melodrama'' is produced in France; the melodramatic form,especially asrendered bywomen dramatists of the nineteenth century,has agreat impacton the American theatre 1813 Louisa Medina born (d.
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The play clearly and engagingly satirizes the social climbers and fortune hunters of a rapidly urbanizing nineteenthcentury United States. Though a comedy – and a quite entertaining one – it serves as a serious warning to Americans that ...
The play clearly and engagingly satirizes the social climbers and fortune hunters of a rapidly urbanizing nineteenthcentury United States. Though a comedy – and a quite entertaining one – it serves as a serious warning to Americans that ...
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These women, and others like them, played an important role inthe development and success of themode of drama thathad the greatest impact onthe Americantheatre inthe nineteenth century. The studyof nineteenthcentury melodrama has ...
These women, and others like them, played an important role inthe development and success of themode of drama thathad the greatest impact onthe Americantheatre inthe nineteenth century. The studyof nineteenthcentury melodrama has ...
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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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| 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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