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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... overtly political play, Watch onthe Rhine, wins theNewYorkDrama Critics Circle Award for best American Play 1944 Lillian Hellman's lastpolitical drama, The Searching Wind 1945 Mary Chase's Harvey wins the Pulitzer Prize, running for.
... overtly political play, Watch onthe Rhine, wins theNewYorkDrama Critics Circle Award for best American Play 1944 Lillian Hellman's lastpolitical drama, The Searching Wind 1945 Mary Chase's Harvey wins the Pulitzer Prize, running for.
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... Critics Circle Award; New York revivals in 1979 and 1983 will earn critical acclaim as will a musical version, Raisin, produced in 1973 1960 Association of Producing Artists founded Lillian Hellman's laststageplay, Toys inthe Attic 1961 ...
... Critics Circle Award; New York revivals in 1979 and 1983 will earn critical acclaim as will a musical version, Raisin, produced in 1973 1960 Association of Producing Artists founded Lillian Hellman's laststageplay, Toys inthe Attic 1961 ...
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... Critics Circle; the play opens inLouisville andmovesto New York the following year Wendy Wasserstein's thesis play, Uncommon Women and Others, produced at the Yale School of Drama 1978 Approximately 40feminist theatres canbe counted ...
... Critics Circle; the play opens inLouisville andmovesto New York the following year Wendy Wasserstein's thesis play, Uncommon Women and Others, produced at the Yale School of Drama 1978 Approximately 40feminist theatres canbe counted ...
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... Critics Circle Award Emily Mann wins an Obie for StillLife Ntozake Shange's adaptationof Brecht's MotherCouragewins an Obie Paula Vogel's The Oldest Profession an actress in play by Wallace Wendy Wasserstein makes her debut as a Shawn ...
... Critics Circle Award Emily Mann wins an Obie for StillLife Ntozake Shange's adaptationof Brecht's MotherCouragewins an Obie Paula Vogel's The Oldest Profession an actress in play by Wallace Wendy Wasserstein makes her debut as a Shawn ...
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... charged as accessory to forgery, and offers to cover the Tiffanys' debts on condition that theywill livein the country, giving up theirsocial pretensions and extravagant habits. 1. Scene from Fashion by Anna Cora Mowatt Critics have.
... charged as accessory to forgery, and offers to cover the Tiffanys' debts on condition that theywill livein the country, giving up theirsocial pretensions and extravagant habits. 1. Scene from Fashion by Anna Cora Mowatt Critics have.
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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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