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The Cambridge companion to American women playwrights /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Cambridge companion to American women playwrights // edited by Brenda Murphy.
other author:	Murphy, Brenda,
Description:	1 online resource (xxxviii, 285 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
Subject:	American drama - Women authors -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521571847
ISBN:	9780511999642 (ebook)

The Cambridge companion to American women playwrights /
The Cambridge companion to American women playwrights /edited by Brenda Murphy. - 1 online resource (xxxviii, 285 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge companions to literature. - Cambridge companions to literature..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

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.

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.

ISBN: 9780511999642 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

668004
American drama
--Women authors

LC Class. No.: PS338.W6 / C36 1999

Dewey Class. No.: 812.009/9287

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