| Description |
308 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / June Schlueter -- The happy revolution : colonial women and the eighteenth-century theater / Mary Anne Schofield -- "The new path" : nineteenth-century American women playwrights / Doris Abramson -- Rachel Crothers : Broadway feminist / Doris Abramson -- Rebellion and rejection : the plays of Susan Glaspell / Barbara Ozieblo -- "Meeting the outside face to face" : Susan Glaspell, Djuna Barnes, and O'Neill's The Emperor Jones / Ann E. Larabee -- Zoe Akins and the age of excess : Broadway melodrama in the 1920s / Jennifer Bradley -- Marriage, madness, and murder in Sophie Treadwell's Machinal / Barbara L. Bywaters -- Gertrude Stein : exile, feminism, avant-garde in the American theatre / Dinnah Pladott -- The fox's cubs : Lillian Hellman, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams / Charlotte Goodman. |
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Loneliness and longing in selected plays of Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams / Mary McBride -- Lorraine Hansberry and the great Black way / Leonard R.N. Ashley -- Megan Terry's transformational drama : Keep tightly closed in a cool dry place and The possibilities of self / June Schlueter -- No place but the funnyhouse : the struggle for identity in three Adrienne Kennedy plays / Susan E. Meigs -- Whose name, whose protection : reading Alice Childress's Wedding band / Catherine Wiley -- "The poetry of a moment" : politics and the open form in the drama of Ntozake Shange / John Tempane -- Comic textures and female communities 1937 and 1977 : Clare Boothe and Wendy Wasserstein / Susan L. Carlson -- Gender perspective and violence in the plays of Maria Irene Fornes and Sam Shepard / Catherine A. Schuler. |
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Ghosts of Chekhov's Three sisters haunt Beth Henley's Crimes of the heart / Joanne B. Karpinski -- Disturbing women : Wendy Kesselman's My sister in this house / Better Mandl -- The Demeter myth and doubling in Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother / Katherine H. Burkman -- The silver lining in the mushroom cloud : Meredith Monk's opera/music theater / Suzanne R. Westfall -- Canonizing lesbians? / Lynda Hart. |
| Subject |
American drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American drama -- Women authors. |
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American drama. |
| Added Author |
Schlueter, June.
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| ISBN |
0838633870 alkaline paper |
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