This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theater, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to the work of one or more playwrights, covering 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, in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the Harlem Renaissance and feminism.
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'... an excellent collection of fifteen essays presenting complex analyses of the position of women and women's drama throughout American history, frequently offering opportunities for future research.' Theatre Research International
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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, covering 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, in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the Harlem Renaissance and feminism.
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Early American dramatists worked within a set of dramatic forms and theatrical traditions inherited from England. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sister playwrights, black women playwrights, contemporary women playwrights, feminist drama, feminist theatre, black drama, women dramatists, feminist playwrights, woman playwright, thirteen plays, female playwrights, black playwrights, dramatic realism, black theatre, republican mother Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, African American, Harlem Renaissance, United States, Adrienne Kennedy, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Marsha Norman, Rachel Crothers, Zora Neale Hurston, World War, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Alice Childress, Approaching Simone, Children's Hour, Megan Terry, Lorraine Hansberry, Maria Irene Fornes, Ntozake Shange, The Heidi Chronicles, Beth Henley, Howard University, May Miller, Minnie Wright, Ann Arbor New!
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Early American dramatists worked within a set of dramatic forms and theatrical traditions inherited from England. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sister playwrights, black women playwrights, contemporary women playwrights, feminist drama, feminist theatre, black drama, women dramatists, feminist playwrights, woman playwright, thirteen plays, female playwrights, black playwrights, dramatic realism, black theatre, republican mother Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, African American, Harlem Renaissance, United States, Adrienne Kennedy, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Marsha Norman, Rachel Crothers, Zora Neale Hurston, World War, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Alice Childress, Approaching Simone, Children's Hour, Megan Terry, Lorraine Hansberry, Maria Irene Fornes, Ntozake Shange, The Heidi Chronicles, Beth Henley, Howard University, May Miller, Minnie Wright, Ann Arbor New!
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- The New Negro : Voices of the Harlem Renaissance by Alain Locke on 4 pages
- After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (Theories of Representation and Difference) by Andreas Huyssen on 4 pages
- Uncommon Women and Others. by Wendy Wasserstein on 4 pages
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- Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America, 1900-1920 (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama) by Katie N. Johnson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Stephen Bottoms in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Playwright's Muse (Studies in Modern Drama) by Joan Herrington on page 27, and Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Ritchie Robertson in Front Matter
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