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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Brenda Murphy. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO AMERICAN WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS EDITEDBYBRENDAMURPHY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town,
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Brenda Murphy. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 2ru,UK Published intheUnitedStates of America byCambridge ...
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... York prohibits plays 1715 New York Governor Robert Hunter's Androboros, the first play written andpublished by an American 1724 First North American acting company established in Philadelphia 1728 MercyOtis Warren born (d. 1814); Warren ...
... York prohibits plays 1715 New York Governor Robert Hunter's Androboros, the first play written andpublished by an American 1724 First North American acting company established in Philadelphia 1728 MercyOtis Warren born (d. 1814); Warren ...
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... York'sfirst permanent playhouse, the JohnStreet Theatre, opens 1771–72 George Washington attends atleast nineteen theatrical productions 1772 Mercy Otis Warren's first, though unproduced, play, The Adulateur 1774 The Continental ...
... York'sfirst permanent playhouse, the JohnStreet Theatre, opens 1771–72 George Washington attends atleast nineteen theatrical productions 1772 Mercy Otis Warren's first, though unproduced, play, The Adulateur 1774 The Continental ...
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... York 1838 Louisa Medina's Nickofthe Woods and Ernest Maltravers produced atthe Bowery Theatre; Medina isthe BoweryTheatre's house playwright 1840 First use of the term “vaudeville” in the United States 1843 First recordedmatinee ...
... York 1838 Louisa Medina's Nickofthe Woods and Ernest Maltravers produced atthe Bowery Theatre; Medina isthe BoweryTheatre's house playwright 1840 First use of the term “vaudeville” in the United States 1843 First recordedmatinee ...
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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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