American Women Playwrights - by B. Murphy

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The Cambridge Companion to:

American Women Playwrights


edited by Brenda Murphy


Contents:

Part 1: Pioneers
1 Comedies by early American women
AMELIA HOWE KRITZER
2 Women writing melodrama
SARAH J . BLACKSTONE
3 Realism and feminism in the Progressive Era
PATRICIA R. SCHROEDER
Part 2: Inheritors
4 Susan Glaspell and modernism
VERONICA MAKOWSKY
5 The expressionist moment: Sophie Treadwell
JERRY DICKEY
6 Feminism and the marketplace: the career of Rachel Crothers
BRENDA MURPHY
7 The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Movement
JUDITH L. STEPHENS
8 Lillian Hellman: feminism, formalism, and politics
THOMAS P. ADLER
9 From Harlem to Broadway: African American women playwrights at mid-century
MARGARET B. WILKERSON
Part 3: New feminists
10 Feminist theory and contemporary drama
JANET BROWN
11 Feminist theatre of the seventies in the United States
HELENE KEYSSAR
12 Contemporary playwrights/traditional forms
LAURIN PORTER
13 Wendy Wasserstein: a feminist voice from the seventies to the present
JAN BALAKIAN
Part 4: Further reading
14 Contemporary American women playwrights: a brief survey of selected scholarship
CHRISTY GAVIN
15 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 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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