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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... others - for example , when Camden has trouble extricating himself from a presumed commitment to Harriot , even though neither loves the other . Some plays show comic role reversal , as when Ben Hassan , dressed as a woman to attempt ...
... others - for example , when Camden has trouble extricating himself from a presumed commitment to Harriot , even though neither loves the other . Some plays show comic role reversal , as when Ben Hassan , dressed as a woman to attempt ...
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... Other satires attributed to Mercy Otis Warren include The Adulateur ( 1773 ) , The Defeat ( 1773 ) , and The Blockheads ; or The Affrighted Officers ( 1776 ) . 2 Page numbers refer to The Group in Amelia Howe Kritzer , ed . , Plays by ...
... Other satires attributed to Mercy Otis Warren include The Adulateur ( 1773 ) , The Defeat ( 1773 ) , and The Blockheads ; or The Affrighted Officers ( 1776 ) . 2 Page numbers refer to The Group in Amelia Howe Kritzer , ed . , Plays by ...
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... other twentieth - century forms . The history of the melodrama as a genre is fairly clear . The first play to be called a melodrama was produced in France in 1800 by René Pixér- écourt , and the form was brought to England by Thomas ...
... other twentieth - century forms . The history of the melodrama as a genre is fairly clear . The first play to be called a melodrama was produced in France in 1800 by René Pixér- écourt , and the form was brought to England by Thomas ...
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... other storage places are dizzying in their variety , complexity , and subject matter . What was considered known ... others drawn from popular music of the day . Camptown Races is an example of a popular song that was simply ...
... other storage places are dizzying in their variety , complexity , and subject matter . What was considered known ... others drawn from popular music of the day . Camptown Races is an example of a popular song that was simply ...
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... other cases , heroines remain true to the values of their culture and are denied a happy ending . In Louisa Medina's Nick of the Woods , the star character Tellie Doe dies at the end of the play , receiving only a soulful epitaph from ...
... other cases , heroines remain true to the values of their culture and are denied a happy ending . In Louisa Medina's Nick of the Woods , the star character Tellie Doe dies at the end of the play , receiving only a soulful epitaph from ...
Contenido
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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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