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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... character artist Playwright Martha Morton organizes the Society of Dramatic Authors because the American Dramatists Club will not accept female members Rachel Crothers ' A Man's World ( published 1915 ) There are twenty - six showboat ...
... character artist Playwright Martha Morton organizes the Society of Dramatic Authors because the American Dramatists Club will not accept female members Rachel Crothers ' A Man's World ( published 1915 ) There are twenty - six showboat ...
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... characters who define themselves apart from men ; her first New York production will earn her a Pulitzer Prize Emily Mann born ; Mann will become known for her documentary dramas , her focus on gender roles and sexual politics , and her ...
... characters who define themselves apart from men ; her first New York production will earn her a Pulitzer Prize Emily Mann born ; Mann will become known for her documentary dramas , her focus on gender roles and sexual politics , and her ...
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... Character Wendy Wasserstein's Guggenheim Fellowship enables Isn't it Romantic Beth Henley's The Miss Firecracker Contest Anna Deveare Smith's Aye , Aye , Aye I'm Integrated is produced Off - Broadway Maria Irene Fornes ' The Conduct of ...
... Character Wendy Wasserstein's Guggenheim Fellowship enables Isn't it Romantic Beth Henley's The Miss Firecracker Contest Anna Deveare Smith's Aye , Aye , Aye I'm Integrated is produced Off - Broadway Maria Irene Fornes ' The Conduct of ...
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... characters of Slavesin Algiers demonstrate, and indeed seemto assume, equality with men. The American women ofthe playfind themselves forced to confront apowerful system of tyranny;theydefy this system, and in doing sodefine themselves ...
... characters of Slavesin Algiers demonstrate, and indeed seemto assume, equality with men. The American women ofthe playfind themselves forced to confront apowerful system of tyranny;theydefy this system, and in doing sodefine themselves ...
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... characters that attempted to give tangible form to the idea of the American woman . Defining the United States in terms of the unparalleled freedom it offered women , despite the fact that it denied them the political rights it ...
... characters that attempted to give tangible form to the idea of the American woman . Defining the United States in terms of the unparalleled freedom it offered women , despite the fact that it denied them the political rights it ...
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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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