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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JAN BALAKIANreceived herPhD fromCornell University in 1991, where her play, The Ceiling Will Open, won Cornell's playwriting award. She is currently AssistantProfessor ofEnglish atKean College ofNew Jersey.She has published critical ...
JAN BALAKIANreceived herPhD fromCornell University in 1991, where her play, The Ceiling Will Open, won Cornell's playwriting award. She is currently AssistantProfessor ofEnglish atKean College ofNew Jersey.She has published critical ...
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... Rowson will find playwriting successwith her comediesandcomic operas 1766 Major Robert Rogers'Ponteach; or the Savages of America, the first playabout Americapublished byan American 1767 New York'sfirst permanent playhouse, ...
... Rowson will find playwriting successwith her comediesandcomic operas 1766 Major Robert Rogers'Ponteach; or the Savages of America, the first playabout Americapublished byan American 1767 New York'sfirst permanent playhouse, ...
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1870); although her upper middleclass family has religious objections tothe theatre, Mowatt will be anavid dramareader and willbecome asuccessful actress with a profitable playwriting career 1823 Mary Carr Clarke's TheBenevolent Lawyers ...
1870); although her upper middleclass family has religious objections tothe theatre, Mowatt will be anavid dramareader and willbecome asuccessful actress with a profitable playwriting career 1823 Mary Carr Clarke's TheBenevolent Lawyers ...
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1958); Crothers will become themostprolific and successful 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 ...
1958); Crothers will become themostprolific and successful 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 ...
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1946); although her fame will not come from her playwriting, Stein will write more than seventyseven theatrical works; Stein's plays, often considered the dramatic equivalent of modernist painting, typically have noplot and bear little ...
1946); although her fame will not come from her playwriting, Stein will write more than seventyseven theatrical works; Stein's plays, often considered the dramatic equivalent of modernist painting, typically have noplot and bear little ...
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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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| 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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