03880nam 22005532 450 99621671600331620160215092118.01-139-81565-20-511-99964-X(CKB)1000000000820148(SSID)ssj0000371557(PQKBManifestationID)11265768(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000371557(PQKBWorkID)10380534(PQKB)10847078(UkCbUP)CR9780511999642(UK-CbPIL)2047939(PPN)16745675X(EXLCZ)99100000000082014820110114d1999|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Cambridge companion to American women playwrights /edited by Brenda Murphy[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,1999.1 online resource (xxxviii, 285 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge companions to literatureTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).0-521-57680-6 0-521-57184-7 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.Cambridge companions to literature.American dramaWomen authorsHistory and criticismAmerican dramaWomen authorsHandbooks, manuals, etcWomen and literatureUnited StatesAmerican dramaWomen authorsHistory and criticism.American dramaWomen authorsWomen and literature812.009/9287Murphy Brenda1950-UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK996216716003316Cambridge companion to American women playwrights1057100UNISA