| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 546 pages) : portrait |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-527) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Wendy Wasserstein -- Rachel Crothers (1870?-1958) -- Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) -- Zoe Akins (1886-1958) -- Edna Ferber (1885-1968) -- Rose Franken (1895-1988) -- Lillian Hellman (1905?-1984) -- Ted Shine: "Opportunities for African-American Women 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- ) -- 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). |
| 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. |
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| Reproduction |
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| Note |
Print version record. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost Biography Reference Center |
| Subject |
American drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Women in literature.
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American drama. (OCoLC)fst00806998
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American drama -- Women authors.
(OCoLC)fst00807032
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Women and literature. (OCoLC)fst01177093
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Women in literature. (OCoLC)fst01177912
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shafer, Yvonne, 1936- American women playwrights, 1900-1950. New York : Peter Lang, ©1995 (DLC) 94045719 (OCoLC)31754191 |
| ISBN |
0820421421 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780820421421 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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