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DescriptionThe 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. Sharing Widget |