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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... stage career when she returns from her deportation to Britain 1794 Susanna Haswell Rowson's comic operaSlaves in Algiers performed atthe Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia 1795 Judith Sargent Murray's Virtue Triumphant; this and ...
... stage career when she returns from her deportation to Britain 1794 Susanna Haswell Rowson's comic operaSlaves in Algiers performed atthe Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia 1795 Judith Sargent Murray's Virtue Triumphant; this and ...
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... stage 1874 The Lambs theatrical club established Zona Gale born (d. 1938); Gale will become a successful writer of American domestic comedy andthefirst female winner of the Pulitzer Prizefor Drama Gertrude Stein born (d. 1946); although ...
... stage 1874 The Lambs theatrical club established Zona Gale born (d. 1938); Gale will become a successful writer of American domestic comedy andthefirst female winner of the Pulitzer Prizefor Drama Gertrude Stein born (d. 1946); although ...
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... stage 1875 The emergenceof complex sets, stagecraft machinery, andthe modern concept ofthedirector 1876 Nearly 100 theatre companies go on tour for the 1876–77 season Susan Glaspell born (d. 1948); always on the cutting edge of American ...
... stage 1875 The emergenceof complex sets, stagecraft machinery, andthe modern concept ofthedirector 1876 Nearly 100 theatre companies go on tour for the 1876–77 season Susan Glaspell born (d. 1948); always on the cutting edge of American ...
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... stage 1929 Marita Bonner's Exit:An Illusion Rachel Crothers' Let Us Be Gay Georgia Douglas Johnson's Safe pioneers innovative uses of various dramatic techniques inits depictionofthehorrors of lynching May Miller's Graven Images May ...
... stage 1929 Marita Bonner's Exit:An Illusion Rachel Crothers' Let Us Be Gay Georgia Douglas Johnson's Safe pioneers innovative uses of various dramatic techniques inits depictionofthehorrors of lynching May Miller's Graven Images May ...
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... stage only in thisbrief scene, her centralposition attheend oftheplay and herserious speech supportingthe rebellion against England argue for consideration ofthe needs of American womenat thistime,evenas they arguethe Patriot cause ...
... stage only in thisbrief scene, her centralposition attheend oftheplay and herserious speech supportingthe rebellion against England argue for consideration ofthe needs of American womenat thistime,evenas they arguethe Patriot cause ...
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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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