| The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights Contributor(s): Murphy, Brenda (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521576806 ISBN-13: 9780521576802 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $42.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1999 Annotation: This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theater, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to the work of one or more playwrights, covering 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, Beth Henley and Maria Irene Fornes, in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the Harlem Renaissance and feminism. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General - Literary Criticism | Drama |
| Dewey: 812.009 |
| LCCN: 98-36593 |
| Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6" W x 9" (0.96 lbs) 324 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |