The Cambridge companion to American women playwrights / edited by Brenda Murphy.

A collection of interpretive essays on American women playwrights.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Murphy, Brenda, 1950-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:	American drama > Women authors > History and criticism. American drama > Women authors > Handbooks, manuals, etc. Women and literature > United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Handbooks and manuals. Reference works.
Online Access:	Sample text Table of contents Publisher description

Table of Contents:

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.

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