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 as female supremacy , but then assures them that women's real powers lie in soothing and caring for those around them , so that they " hold in silken chains the lordly tyrant man " ( 94 ) . Whether Rowson used her tone of voice to ...
... play as female supremacy , but then assures them that women's real powers lie in soothing and caring for those around them , so that they " hold in silken chains the lordly tyrant man " ( 94 ) . Whether Rowson used her tone of voice to ...
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... play's happy ending . This play shows that freedom can permit a woman to make mistakes , but that she can correct her mistakes and succeed in the quest for happiness . Despite its didactic tone , the play offers amusing entertainment ...
... play's happy ending . This play shows that freedom can permit a woman to make mistakes , but that she can correct her mistakes and succeed in the quest for happiness . Despite its didactic tone , the play offers amusing entertainment ...
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... play piracy that resulted . Many play pirates simply obtained a printed copy of a script , changed the title and / or the character names , and copyrighted the resulting " new play " under their own names . Some of these pirates even ...
... play piracy that resulted . Many play pirates simply obtained a printed copy of a script , changed the title and / or the character names , and copyrighted the resulting " new play " under their own names . Some of these pirates even ...
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... plays , three of which were published and two of which are extant ( Plays By Early American Women , 16 ) . That Mary Carr Clarke wrote The Benevolent Lawyers ; or Villainy Detected ( 1823 ) is undisputed , but whether or not the play ...
... plays , three of which were published and two of which are extant ( Plays By Early American Women , 16 ) . That Mary Carr Clarke wrote The Benevolent Lawyers ; or Villainy Detected ( 1823 ) is undisputed , but whether or not the play ...
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... play takes place in the household of Major Garroway Bangs and is a series of comic situations instigated by preparations for an amateur theatrical . The play is of very poor quality , relying on bad puns and silly disguises for its ...
... play takes place in the household of Major Garroway Bangs and is a series of comic situations instigated by preparations for an amateur theatrical . The play is of very poor quality , relying on bad puns and silly disguises for its ...
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Inheritors | 47 |
Susan Glaspell and modernism | 49 |
The expressionist moment Sophie Treadwell | 66 |
Feminism and the marketplace the career of Rachel Crothers | 82 |
The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Movement | 98 |
Feminist theory and contemporary drama | 155 |
Feminist theatre of the seventies in the United States | 173 |
Contemporary playwrightstraditional forms | 195 |
Wendy Wasserstein a feminist voice from the seventies to the present | 213 |
Further reading | 233 |
Contemporary American women playwrights a brief survey of selected scholarship | 235 |
Discovering and recovering African American women playwrights writing before 1930 | 244 |
Works cited | 254 |
Lillian Hellman feminism formalism and politics | 118 |
From Harlem to Broadway African American women playwrights at midcentury | 134 |
New feminists | 153 |
Index | 273 |
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