The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights

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2011-11
版次: 1
ISBN: 9780521576802
定价: 285.00
装帧: 平装
开本: 16开
纸张: 胶版纸
页数: 285页
  • This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughoutthe history of the American theatre, from the early pioneers tocontemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to thework of one or more playwrights and to a way of thinking aboutplays. Together they cover significant writers such as RachelCrothers, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Sophie Treadwell,Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Megan Terry, Ntozake Shange,Adrienne Kennedy, Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Beth Henley andMaria Irene Fornes. Playwrights are discussed in the context oftopics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism,the Harlem Renaissance, the feminist resurgence of the 1970s andfeminist dramatic theory. A detailed chronology and illustrationsenhance the volume, which also includes bibliographical essays onrecent criticism and on African-American women playwrights before1930. List of illustrations

    List of contributors

    Preface; Chronology Stephanie Roach

    Part I. Pioneers

      1. Comedies by early American women Amelia HoweKritzer

      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 JerryDickey

      6. Feminism and the marketplace: the career of RachelCrothers Brenda Murphy

      7. The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro movement JudithL. Stephens

      8. Lillian Hellman: feminism, formalism, and politics ThomasP. Adler

      9. From Harlem to Broadway: African-American womenplaywrights 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 StatesHelene Keyssar

      12. Contemporary Playwrights/traditional forms LaurinPorter

      13. Wendy Wasserstein: a feminist voice from the Seventiesto the present Jan Balakian

    Part IV. Further Reading 

      14. Contemporary American women playwrights: a brief surveyof key scholarship Christy Gavin

      15. African-American women playwrights before 1930 ChristineR. Gray; Works cited

    Index.

     
  • 内容简介:
    This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughoutthe history of the American theatre, from the early pioneers tocontemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to thework of one or more playwrights and to a way of thinking aboutplays. Together they cover significant writers such as RachelCrothers, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Sophie Treadwell,Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Megan Terry, Ntozake Shange,Adrienne Kennedy, Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Beth Henley andMaria Irene Fornes. Playwrights are discussed in the context oftopics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism,the Harlem Renaissance, the feminist resurgence of the 1970s andfeminist dramatic theory. A detailed chronology and illustrationsenhance the volume, which also includes bibliographical essays onrecent criticism and on African-American women playwrights before1930.
  • 目录:
    List of illustrations

    List of contributors

    Preface; Chronology Stephanie Roach

    Part I. Pioneers

      1. Comedies by early American women Amelia HoweKritzer

      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 JerryDickey

      6. Feminism and the marketplace: the career of RachelCrothers Brenda Murphy

      7. The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro movement JudithL. Stephens

      8. Lillian Hellman: feminism, formalism, and politics ThomasP. Adler

      9. From Harlem to Broadway: African-American womenplaywrights 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 StatesHelene Keyssar

      12. Contemporary Playwrights/traditional forms LaurinPorter

      13. Wendy Wasserstein: a feminist voice from the Seventiesto the present Jan Balakian

    Part IV. Further Reading 

      14. Contemporary American women playwrights: a brief surveyof key scholarship Christy Gavin

      15. African-American women playwrights before 1930 ChristineR. Gray; Works cited

    Index.

     
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