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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... 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 byher parentsto achieve ...
... 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 byher parentsto achieve ...
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... roles to be performed; married couples or families usually shared a benefit. 6 The bestof Murray'swork, includingherplays, iscollectedin TheGleaner, originally published in1798andrecently republished byUnion College Press. 7 The Memoirs ...
... roles to be performed; married couples or families usually shared a benefit. 6 The bestof Murray'swork, includingherplays, iscollectedin TheGleaner, originally published in1798andrecently republished byUnion College Press. 7 The Memoirs ...
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... role inthe development and success of themode of drama thathad the greatest impact onthe Americantheatre inthe nineteenth century. The studyof nineteenthcentury melodrama has traditionally been on the fringesof scholarly work. Thisis ...
... role inthe development and success of themode of drama thathad the greatest impact onthe Americantheatre inthe nineteenth century. The studyof nineteenthcentury melodrama has traditionally been on the fringesof scholarly work. Thisis ...
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... sensational melodrama Forget Me Not, which she first presented in 1879. She performed theplay more than two thousand times during her career, making the heroine Stephanie her signature role. References to her performances in the.
... sensational melodrama Forget Me Not, which she first presented in 1879. She performed theplay more than two thousand times during her career, making the heroine Stephanie her signature role. References to her performances in the.
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... role of Stephaniein England, America,and Australia from1879until 1887, led to the mistaken belief that she wasthe playwright as wellas the actress who created therole. One of theAfrican American women authors known to havewritten a ...
... role of Stephaniein England, America,and Australia from1879until 1887, led to the mistaken belief that she wasthe playwright as wellas the actress who created therole. One of theAfrican American women authors known to havewritten a ...
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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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