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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... female supremacy, butthen assures them that women's real powers lie in soothing and caringfor thosearound them, so thatthey “hold insilken chains the lordlytyrant man” (94). Whether Rowson used her tone ofvoice to advocate one of these ...
... female supremacy, butthen assures them that women's real powers lie in soothing and caringfor thosearound them, so thatthey “hold insilken chains the lordlytyrant man” (94). Whether Rowson used her tone ofvoice to advocate one of these ...
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... female companion, are captured bythe Barbary pirates while on a voyage toseekout Ellinor's fiancé, who has not been heard from in months. They findhimand his servant Zeikelamong the captivesin Algiers. The men areforced to perform ...
... female companion, are captured bythe Barbary pirates while on a voyage toseekout Ellinor's fiancé, who has not been heard from in months. They findhimand his servant Zeikelamong the captivesin Algiers. The men areforced to perform ...
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... female characters to secondary roles, they place theminthe center, wherethey initiate actionand speak theirminds. This focus on the female takes place without apology or explanation. All theplays thus assumea basic level of power for ...
... female characters to secondary roles, they place theminthe center, wherethey initiate actionand speak theirminds. This focus on the female takes place without apology or explanation. All theplays thus assumea basic level of power for ...
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... female identity and roles.While focusingon women, theplay highlights weakness and follyratherthan strength and capacityfor reason. Seraphina, theyoung, desirable woman pursued bya large number of men,functions asa commoditytobe used ...
... female identity and roles.While focusingon women, theplay highlights weakness and follyratherthan strength and capacityfor reason. Seraphina, theyoung, desirable woman pursued bya large number of men,functions asa commoditytobe used ...
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... Female Enthusiast, 1807, included in Kritzer,ed., Plays by Early American Women. 11 Page numbersrefer to TheTraveller Returned in Kritzer, ed., Plays by Early AmericanWomen. 2 SARAH J. BLACKSTONE Women writing melodrama From Mary Carr.
... Female Enthusiast, 1807, included in Kritzer,ed., Plays by Early American Women. 11 Page numbersrefer to TheTraveller Returned in Kritzer, ed., Plays by Early AmericanWomen. 2 SARAH J. BLACKSTONE Women writing melodrama From Mary Carr.
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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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