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The Cambridge companion to American women playwrights

Brenda Murphy (Editor)
A collection of interpretive essays on American women playwrights
Print Book, English, 1999
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1999
Aufsatzsammlung
xxxviii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780521571845, 9780521576802, 0521571847, 0521576806
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Comedies by early American women / Amelia Howe Kritzer
Women writing melodrama / Sarah J. Blackstone
Realism and feminism in the Progressive Era / Patricia R. Schroeder
Susan Glaspell and modernism / Veronica Makowsky
The expressionist moment: Sophie Treadwell / Jerry Dickey
Feminism and the marketplace: the career of Rachel Crothers / Brenda Murphy
The Harlem Renaissance and the new Negro movement / Judith L. Stephens
Lillian Hellman: feminism, formalism, and politics / Thomas P. Adler
From Harlem to Broadway: African American women playwrights at mid-century / Margaret B. Wilkerson
Feminist theory and contemporary drama / Janet Brown
Feminist theatre of the seventies in the United States / Helene Keyssar
Contemporary playwrights/traditional forms / Laurin Porter
Wendy Wasserstein: a feminist voice from the seventies to the present / Jan Balakian
Contemporary American women playwrights: a brief survey of selected scholarship / Christy Gavin
Discovering and recovering African American women playwrights writing before 1930 / Christine R. Gray