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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... America, the first playabout Americapublished byan American 1767 New York'sfirst permanent playhouse, the JohnStreet Theatre, opens 1771–72 George Washington attends atleast nineteen theatrical productions 1772 Mercy Otis Warren's first ...
... America, the first playabout Americapublished byan American 1767 New York'sfirst permanent playhouse, the JohnStreet Theatre, opens 1771–72 George Washington attends atleast nineteen theatrical productions 1772 Mercy Otis Warren's first ...
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... American stage career when she returns from her deportation to Britain 1794 Susanna Haswell Rowson's comic operaSlaves in Algiers performed atthe Chestnut Street Theatre ... American women toearn herliving asawriter 1800 The first play to be ...
... American stage career when she returns from her deportation to Britain 1794 Susanna Haswell Rowson's comic operaSlaves in Algiers performed atthe Chestnut Street Theatre ... American women toearn herliving asawriter 1800 The first play to be ...
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... American” drama, American QuarterlyReview (June) 1830s–40s American women dramatists turn from comedy to melodrama and tragedy; however,in 1845Anna Cora Mowatt's comedyFashion breaks on the theatre scene and is a stunning success ...
... American” drama, American QuarterlyReview (June) 1830s–40s American women dramatists turn from comedy to melodrama and tragedy; however,in 1845Anna Cora Mowatt's comedyFashion breaks on the theatre scene and is a stunning success ...
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... Theatre in San Francisco 1854 ActorJohn Wilkes Booth's debut Anna Cora Mowatt's final performance (June3) 1855 Actressmanager Laura Keene opens the Laura Keen Varieties Theatre, NewYork 1856 First American copyright law Mrs. Sidney ...
... Theatre in San Francisco 1854 ActorJohn Wilkes Booth's debut Anna Cora Mowatt's final performance (June3) 1855 Actressmanager Laura Keene opens the Laura Keen Varieties Theatre, NewYork 1856 First American copyright law Mrs. Sidney ...
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... theatre companies go on tour for the 1876–77 season Susan Glaspell born (d. 1948); always on the cutting edge of American theatre,Glaspell will helpfound the Provincetown Players, acompany thatwill produce hermany and manyfaceted plays ...
... theatre companies go on tour for the 1876–77 season Susan Glaspell born (d. 1948); always on the cutting edge of American theatre,Glaspell will helpfound the Provincetown Players, acompany thatwill produce hermany and manyfaceted plays ...
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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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