Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights

Name: Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights
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ISBN: 9780521576802

ISBN-10: 0521576806

ISBN-13: 9780521576802

Edition: 1999

Authors: Brenda Murphy

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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 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…

Book details

List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/28/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.144



List of illustrations


Notes on contributors


Preface


Acknowledgments


Chronology




Pioneers



Comedies by early American women




Women writing melodrama




Realism and feminism in the Progressive Era




Inheritors



Susan Glaspell and modernism




The expressionist moment: Sophie Treadwell




Feminism and the marketplace: the career of Rachel Crothers




The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Movement




Lillian Hellman: feminism, formalism, and politics




From Harlem to Broadway: African American women playwrights at mid-century




New feminists



Feminist theory and contemporary drama




Feminist theatre of the seventies in the United States




Contemporary playwrights/traditional forms




Wendy Wasserstein: a feminist voice from the seventies to the present




Further reading



Contemporary American women playwrights: a brief survey of selected scholarship




Discovering and recovering African American women playwrights writing before 1930



Works cited


Index