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The history of America's feminist playwrights is as old as the history of the nation. Since the incorporation of the United States in the late 1700s, scores of women have dramatized the plight of women in a culture dominated by the interests of its men. Mercy Otis Warren, a patriot of the Revolution, was not only the country's first woman playwright but also its first feminist playwright. Warren and the dramatists Susanna Rowson and Anna Cora Mowatt,...
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"In this collection of 23 interviews, theatre critic Alexis Greene talks with women who write plays for the American stage. She explores topics such as cultural background, playwriting style, the challenges of sustaining a career, and the relationship between life and art. These indepth conversations provide unique insights into the work, though processes, and personalities of an extraordinary group of writers." -- Back cover.
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This book presents an analysis of the many plays written by women in the American theatre in the first half of the century. Such playwrights as Rachel Crothers, Zona Gale, Susan Glaspell, Edna Ferber, and Lillian Hellman were popular and successful contributors to the stage. Many of their plays won such awards as the Pulitzer Prize, the Drama Critics Circle Award, and Tony Awards. The plays are discussed in terms of their popular and critical value...
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"This book demonstrates the crucial significance of looking at theatrical performance for rethinking critical inquiry. Leah Garland closely analyzes the theoretical tools with which prominent theater artists - Cherrie Moraga, Carmelita Tropicana, Coco Fusco, and Nao Bustamante - challenge neocolonial parameters for self-examination. Garland shows how the self-affirmative maneuvers that these artists deploy reconceptualize the subject in literary theory."--Jacket....
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Brown lays the foundation for feminist theater, tracing its late appearance to the humanitarian need to give voice to forgotten women. She discusses 11 plays by both male and female playwrights (Norman, Shange, Rabe, and Wagner, among others) which have been commercially successful. She includes plot summaries that serve as introduction to the plays for a theatrical neophyte, and as guides to their subtleties for a more experienced reader/theatergoer....
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This companion volume to Schlueter's Feminist Rereeading of Modern American Drama contains 20 essays that focus on female playwrights rather than on feminist interpretations of male playwrights. It includes chapters on four black women playwrights--Lorraine Hansberry, Adrienne Kennedy, Alice Childress, and Ntozake Shange. Of particular interest are Linda Hart's "Canonizing Lesbians?" and Dinnah Pladott's provocative essay on Gertrude Stein, which...
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