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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... the play's actiondivides into twoseparate spheres. On the farm,theworkof raisingpoultryand livestock,growing crops, spinning, weaving, sewing, knitting, dairying,baking, andbrewing continues. In themilitary camp, preparations are made ...
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... theplays' structure. Ratherthan relegating 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 ...
... theplays' structure. Ratherthan relegating 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 ...
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... The play clearly and engagingly satirizes the social climbers and fortune hunters of a rapidly urbanizing nineteenthcentury United States. Though a comedy – and a quite entertaining one – it serves as a serious warning to Americans that ...
... The play clearly and engagingly satirizes the social climbers and fortune hunters of a rapidly urbanizing nineteenthcentury United States. Though a comedy – and a quite entertaining one – it serves as a serious warning to Americans that ...
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... theplay; not evenpoliteness canmake him conceal his feelings of outrage at the travesty theTiffany family has made ofthe pursuit of happiness. Evenas it presents aclear opposition between urbanand rural life, however, Fashion operates ...
... theplay; not evenpoliteness canmake him conceal his feelings of outrage at the travesty theTiffany family has made ofthe pursuit of happiness. Evenas it presents aclear opposition between urbanand rural life, however, Fashion operates ...
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... the play, though it includes bothmen andwomen, isspoken by Trueman alone rather than by a chorus of citizensof bothsexes. Ironically,thisplay thatsatirizes the desires of someAmericans to ape European language abandons the idea that ...
... the play, though it includes bothmen andwomen, isspoken by Trueman alone rather than by a chorus of citizensof bothsexes. Ironically,thisplay thatsatirizes the desires of someAmericans to ape European language abandons the idea that ...
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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 | |
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