American Feminist Playwrights
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American Feminist Playwrights
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Author : Sally Burke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
American Feminist Playwrights written by Sally Burke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Burke's study examines works intensely feminist in their message - the suffrage plays of the early women's movement, the social protest dramas of the 1920s and 1930s, the plays advocating equal rights from the late 1960s onward - and those whose feminism seems an almost unintentional part of their content. Lillian Hellman, who professed no special interest in women's issues and disdained discussions of herself as a "woman" playwright, nonetheless addressed in her dramas numerous feminist themes, including women's need for financial independence, the treatment of women as possessions, the crippling effects of male dominance, and society's attitudes toward lesbianism. In the latter half of the 20th century a number of feminist playwrights integrated into their dramatic consciousness an awareness of racism.
The Cambridge Companion To American Women Playwrights
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Author : Brenda Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-06-28
The Cambridge Companion To American Women Playwrights written by Brenda Murphy and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theatre, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to the work of one or more playwrights and to a way of thinking about plays. Together they cover 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. Playwrights are discussed in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the Harlem Renaissance, the feminist resurgence of the 1970s and feminist dramatic theory. A detailed chronology and illustrations enhance the volume, which also includes bibliographical essays on recent criticism and on African-American women playwrights before 1930.
Strange Orphans
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Author : Beatrix Taumann
language : en
Publisher: Königshausen & Neumann
Release Date : 1999
Strange Orphans written by Beatrix Taumann and has been published by Königshausen & Neumann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with African American dramatists categories.
Performing Gender Violence
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Author : B. Ozieblo
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-01-02
Performing Gender Violence written by B. Ozieblo and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-02 with Performing Arts categories.
Violence against women in plays bywomen has earned little mention. This revolutionary collection fills that gap, focusing on plays by American women dramatists, written in the last thirty years, that deal with different forms of gender violence. Each author discusses specific manifestations of violence in carefully selected plays: psychological, familial, war-time, and social injustice. This book encompasses the theatrical devices used to represent violence on the stage in an age of virtual, immediate reality as much as the problematics of gender violence in modern society.
Feminist Theatre
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Author : Helene Keyssar
language : en
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1984 (1986 printing)
Release Date : 1984
Feminist Theatre written by Helene Keyssar and has been published by Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1984 (1986 printing) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Drama categories.
Focuses on the works of Pam Gems, Michalene Wandor, Caryl Churchill, Megan Terry, and Ntozake Shange.
American Women Playwrights 1900 1950
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Author : Yvonne Shafer
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 1995
American Women Playwrights 1900 1950 written by Yvonne Shafer and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Drama categories.
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.
Black Women Playwrights
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Author : Carol P. Marsh-Lockett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-12-22
Black Women Playwrights written by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of critical essays on plays by African American female playwrights from the post-reconstruction period to the present provides thematic analyses of plays by major and less widely known African American women playwrights The contributors examine the plays as vehicles of public discourse, and as explorations of issues of African American identity. Essays explore the themes of sexuality, agency, anger, and self-concept in the plays of African American Women.
Taking Center Stage
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Author : Janet Brown
language : en
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 1991
Taking Center Stage written by Janet Brown and has been published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Drama categories.
Successor to the author's ground-breaking Feminist Drama (1979), this book describes the evolution of contemporary American feminist thought since that volume appeared and traces its themes in a cross-section of contemporary plays.
African American Women Playwrights
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Author : Christy Gavin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-10-12
African American Women Playwrights written by Christy Gavin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
This Guide includes the primary and secondary works and summaries of plays of 15 prominent African American women playwrights including Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Alice Childress, Zora Neale Hurston, Georgia Douglas Johnson. During the last 10 to 15 years, critical consideration of contemporary as well as earlier black women playwrights has blossomed. Plays by black women are increasingly anthologized and two recently published anthologies devote themselves solely to black women dramatists. In light of the growing interest in scholarship concerning African American women playwrights, researchers and librarians need a bibliographical source that brings together the profiles interviews, critical material and primary sources of black female playwrights. This guide will provide a bibliographical essay reviewing the scholarship of black women playwrights as well as for each playwright: a biography, summaries of each play detailed annotations of secondary material, and list of primary sources.
Women In American Theatre
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Author : Helen Krich Chinoy
language : en
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
Release Date : 2006
Women In American Theatre written by Helen Krich Chinoy and has been published by Theatre Communications Grou this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
First full-scale revision since 1987.