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This landmark anthology reveals the depth and scope of women's dramatic voices during the middle years of this century. Among the eight plays in the volume are smart comedies and poignant tragedies, political agitprop and surrealist fantasies, established classics and neglected treasures. Hallie Flanagan and Margaret Ellen Clifford's Can You Hear Their Voices? uses presentational techniques to expose the suffering of starving farmers while Shirley...
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"Translations of eight plays by acclaimed women playwrights: Isidora Aguirre (Chile), Sabina Berman (Mexico), Myrna Casas (Puerto Rico), Teresa Marichal (Puerto Rico), Diana Raznovich (Argentina), Mariela Romero (Venezuela), Beatriz Seibel (Argentina), and Maruxa Vilalta (Mexico). Introductory essay and bio-bibliographical notes on each author offer ample contextualization supplemented by a useful bibliography of primary and secondary sources. Lively...
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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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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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The seventeen women poets and dramatists described are Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alice Childress, Lucille Clifton, Rita Dove, Nikki Giovanni, Lorraine Hansberry, Frances E.W. Harper, Georgia Douglas Johnson, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Thylias Moss, Carolyn M. Rodgers, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Margaret Walker, and Phillis Wheatley. A biographical summary, critical extracts and a bibliographical listing are provided for each author.
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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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"A ground-breaking anthology of eighteen new and recent works by African American, Asian American, Latina American and Native American playwrights. This compelling anthology includes works by award-winning and well-known playwrights such as Anna Deavere Smith, Cherrie Moraga, Pearl Cleage, Marga Gomez and Spiderwoman, along with notable emerging writers such as Kia Corthron, Louella Dizon, Diana Son and Terry Gomez. These are women who are breaking...
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