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Title:

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

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

xxxviii, 285 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American drama--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American drama--Women authors--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Women and literature--United States.
Toneelstukken.
Toneelschrijvers.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Amerikaans.

Other Authors:

Murphy, Brenda, 1950-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-272) and index.

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.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

ISBN:

9780521576802 (pbk.)
0521576806 (pbk.)
9780521571845 (hardback)
0521571847 (hardback)

LCCN:

98036593

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)