LEADER 03880nam 22005532 450 001 996216716003316 005 20160215092118.0 010 $a1-139-81565-2 010 $a0-511-99964-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000820148 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000371557 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11265768 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000371557 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10380534 035 $a(PQKB)10847078 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511999642 035 $a(UK-CbPIL)2047939 035 $a(PPN)16745675X 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000820148 100 $a20110114d1999|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Cambridge companion to American women playwrights /$fedited by Brenda Murphy$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d1999. 215 $a1 online resource (xxxviii, 285 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge companions to literature 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). 311 $a0-521-57680-6 311 $a0-521-57184-7 327 $aComedies 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. 330 $aThis volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theatre, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to the work of one or more playwrights and to a way of thinking about plays. Together they cover significant writers such as Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Sophie Treadwell, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Megan Terry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Beth Henley and Maria Irene Fornes. Playwrights are discussed in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the Harlem Renaissance, the feminist resurgence of the 1970s and feminist dramatic theory. A detailed chronology and illustrations enhance the volume, which also includes bibliographical essays on recent criticism and on African-American women playwrights before 1930. 410 0$aCambridge companions to literature. 606 $aAmerican drama$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican drama$xWomen authors$vHandbooks, manuals, etc 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States 615 0$aAmerican drama$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican drama$xWomen authors 615 0$aWomen and literature 676 $a812.009/9287 702 $aMurphy$b Brenda$f1950- 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996216716003316 996 $aCambridge companion to American women playwrights$91057100 997 $aUNISA