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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... regionaland university theatre 1950 Wendy Wasserstein born; Wasserstein will become a playwright known for creating strong women's roles and will be the first woman playwright towin a TonyAward 1951 Lillian Hellman's The Autumn ...
... regionaland university theatre 1950 Wendy Wasserstein born; Wasserstein will become a playwright known for creating strong women's roles and will be the first woman playwright towin a TonyAward 1951 Lillian Hellman's The Autumn ...
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the WOW Café, the company employs Brechtian techniques to critique rigid gender roles and compulsory heterosexuality Beth Henley's first play Crimes of the Heart earns her a Pulitzer Prize and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award Emily ...
the WOW Café, the company employs Brechtian techniques to critique rigid gender roles and compulsory heterosexuality Beth Henley's first play Crimes of the Heart earns her a Pulitzer Prize and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award Emily ...
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Having exited after playing the role of Olivia, Rowson hasherself summoned back by name, then reentersas playwright, and speaks directly to women: Well, ladies,tell me: how d'ye like myplay? “The creature has some sense,” methinksyou ...
Having exited after playing the role of Olivia, Rowson hasherself summoned back by name, then reentersas playwright, and speaks directly to women: Well, ladies,tell me: how d'ye like myplay? “The creature has some sense,” methinksyou ...
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Ratherthan relegating female characters to secondary roles, they place theminthe center, wherethey initiate actionand speak theirminds. ... Some plays show comic role reversal, as when Ben Hassan, dressed as a woman to attempt escape, ...
Ratherthan relegating female characters to secondary roles, they place theminthe center, wherethey initiate actionand speak theirminds. ... Some plays show comic role reversal, as when Ben Hassan, dressed as a woman to attempt escape, ...
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political role as that of the “republican mother” (see Kerber, “Republican Mother”). These plays, however, seize upon the most independent, assertive, and socially active elements in the construct of the republican mother.
political role as that of the “republican mother” (see Kerber, “Republican Mother”). These plays, however, seize upon the most independent, assertive, and socially active elements in the construct of the republican mother.
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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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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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