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.
目錄：
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Preface; Chronology Stephanie Roach
Part I. 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 II. Inheritors
4. Susan Glaspell and Modernism Veronica Makowsky
5. The Expressionist movement: 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 Wilkerson
Part III. New Feminists
10. Feminist theory and contemporary drama Janet Brown
11. Feminist theater of the ''Seventies'' in the United States
Helene Keyssar
12. Contemporary Playwrightstraditional forms Laurin
Porter
13. Wendy Wasserstein: a feminist voice from the Seventies
to the present Jan Balakian
Part IV. Further Reading
14. Contemporary American women playwrights: a brief survey
of key scholarship Christy Gavin
15. African-American women playwrights before 1930 Christine
R. Gray; Works cited
Index.
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