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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... cultural and historical, criticaland theoretical, aesthetic and ideological. Each of the essays ismeantto introduce the reader both to the work ofoneor more writersand to awayof thinking about plays. In the Pioneers section, Amelia ...
... cultural and historical, criticaland theoretical, aesthetic and ideological. Each of the essays ismeantto introduce the reader both to the work ofoneor more writersand to awayof thinking about plays. In the Pioneers section, Amelia ...
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... culture. The editor's chief regret is that, because space is finite,somany playwrights hadto be leftout ofthe volume or given less attention than they deserve. Christy Gavin suggests some of the contemporary writers who deserve ...
... culture. The editor's chief regret is that, because space is finite,somany playwrights hadto be leftout ofthe volume or given less attention than they deserve. Christy Gavin suggests some of the contemporary writers who deserve ...
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... Culture, New YorkPublic Library;the Universityof ArizonaLibrary Special Collections; Homer Babbidge Library, Universityof Connecticut; theUniversity of Pennsylvania Libraries; and the Library of Congress. Wayne Furman, Vivian Gonzalez ...
... Culture, New YorkPublic Library;the Universityof ArizonaLibrary Special Collections; Homer Babbidge Library, Universityof Connecticut; theUniversity of Pennsylvania Libraries; and the Library of Congress. Wayne Furman, Vivian Gonzalez ...
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... cultural opposition to elite art forms, combined withthinly populated citiesand scarcity of resources tomake establishmentof theatre difficult inthe United States. To counter antitheatricalism, or perhaps merely to address ...
... cultural opposition to elite art forms, combined withthinly populated citiesand scarcity of resources tomake establishmentof theatre difficult inthe United States. To counter antitheatricalism, or perhaps merely to address ...
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... cultural history to investigate social attitudesand practices asthey changed and developed duringthe nineteenth century. In order to investigate what the plays have tosay about the culture that produced and embraced them itis necessary ...
... cultural history to investigate social attitudesand practices asthey changed and developed duringthe nineteenth century. In order to investigate what the plays have tosay about the culture that produced and embraced them itis necessary ...
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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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