The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights
by Brenda Murphy
Cambridge Companions to Literature
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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, show more 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. show lessTags
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Brenda Murphy is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut Susan C. W. Abbotson has taught English for fifteen years. She currently teaches in the Freshman Studies department at Johnson and Wales University
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights
- Original publication date
- 1999
- People/Characters
- Mary Carr Clarke; Louisa Medina; Pauline Hopkins; Francis Hodgson Burnett; George Bernard Shaw; Eugene O’Neill (show all 52); Anton Chekhov; Susan Glaspell; Zona Gale; Rachel Crothers; Marion Craig Wentworth; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Abraham Lincoln; Sophie Treadwell; Arthur Hobson Quinn; Langston Hughes; Countee Cullen; Georgia Douglas Johnson; Claude McKay; Zora Neale Hurston; Lillian Hellman; August Wilson; Amiri Baraka; Susan Glaspell; Elmer Rice; Eugene O'Neill; Ralph Ellison; Sally Burke; Rachel Koenig; Kathleen Betsko; Linda Walsh Jenkins; Helen Krich Chinoy; Susan M. Steadman; Doris Day; Helena Rubinstein; Cary Grant; Richard Halliburton; Robert Brustein; Wendy Kesselman; Ntozake Shange; Emily Mann; Maria Irene Fornes; Tina Howe; Wendy Wasserstein; Beth Henley; Marsha Norman; Teresa de Lauretis; Megan Terry; Lorraine Hansberry; Anna Cora Mowatt; Royall Tyler
- Important places
- New York Shakespeare Festival, New York, New York, USA; National Theatre, London, England, UK; Broadway, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA
- Important events
- Harlem Renaissance; New Negro Movement; New Negro Renaissance; World War II; GI Bill; Cold War
- Original language
- English
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- 38
- Popularity
- 733,739
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
