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American women playwrights, 1900-1950 / Yvonne Shafer. [electronic resource]
International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance Available from 01/01/1995. Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shafer, Yvonne, 1936-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American drama--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American drama.
- Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- American drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- Women in literature.
- American drama--History and criticism--Women authors--20th century--United States.
- Women and literature--History--20th century.
- American drama--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 546 p. ) port. ;
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, c1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 and placed within the historical and social background of the period. In this time of intense change for women in American society, the plays reflect the new demands for freedom, careers, the right to vote, equality with men, and the right to intellectual development. Shafer calls attention to many fine plays which deserve production today.
- Contents:
- Part one
- Rachel Crothers (1870?-1958)
- Susan Glaspell (1879-1948)
- Zoë Akins (1886-1958)
- Edna Ferber (1885-1968)
- Rose Franken (1895-1988)
- Lillian Hellman (1905?-1984)
- Summary
- Part two
- Ted Shine: "opportunities for African American woman playwrights"
- Clare Kummer (1873-1958)
- Josephine Preston Peabody (1874-1922)
- Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
- Rida Johnson Young (1875?-1926)
- Zona Gale (1874-1938)
- Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880-1966)
- Alice Gerstenberg (1885-1972)
- Sophie Treadwell (1885?-1970)
- Eulalie Spence (1894-1981)
- Ruth Gordon (1895-1985)
- Lula Vollmer (1898-1955)
- May Miller (1899- )
- Bella Spewack (1899-1990)
- Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987)
- Mary Coyle Chase (1907-1981)
- Fay Kanin (1916- )
- Part three
- Martha Morton (1865?-1925)
- Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
- Anita Loos (1893?-1981)
- Dorothy Heyward (1890-1961)
- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
- Anne Nichols (1891-1966)
- Mae West (1892-1980)
- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
- Marita Bonner (1899-1971)
- Maurine Watkins (1900-1968)
- Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901-1979)
- Elsa Shelley (1905-?)
- Carson McCullers (1917-1967)
- Summary.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-527) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-8204-2142-1
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