Plays by American Women, 1900-1930
Author : Judith E. Barlow
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,83 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9780879102258
Author : Judith E. Barlow
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,83 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9780879102258
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 1992
Category : American drama
ISBN :
Author : Judith E. Barlow
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781557830081
Traces the contributions of women to the American theater and offers the texts of five plays that deal with a sick child, a murdered husband, and family life
Author : Maggie B. Gale
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 34,89 MB
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1526136872
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book presents a collection of cutting-edge historical and cultural essays in the field of women, theatre and performance. The chapters explore women’s networks of professional practice in the theatre and performance industries between 1900 and 1950, with a focus on women’s sense and experience of professional agency in an industry largely controlled by men. The book is divided into two sections: ‘Female theatre workers in the social and theatrical realm’ looks at the relationship between women’s work – on and off stage – and autobiography, activism, technique, touring, education and the law. ‘Women and popular performance’ focuses on the careers of individual artists, once household names, including Lily Brayton, Ellen Terry, radio star Mabel Constanduros and Oscar-winning film star Margaret Rutherford.
Author : Yvonne Shafer
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN :
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.
Author : Mary Maddock
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 13,13 MB
Release : 1987
Category : American drama
ISBN :
Author : Mary Maddock
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 25,68 MB
Release : 1987
Category : American drama
ISBN :
Author : Frances Diodato Bzowski
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 1992-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0313242380
The first three decades of the twentieth century saw the New Woman writing an astonishing array of dramatic presentations. This checklist, gleaned from hundreds of library collections and out-of-print anthologies, reveals over 12,000 plays by perhaps 2,000 American women. Some of these works are well known, most are not; some are of enduring literary quality, probably most are not; but all are of social significance and serve to document women's history of the period. Included in a broad definition of play, are dramas and comedies, musicals, farces, monologues and dialogues, pageants and masques, stunts and exercises, operas and cantatas. In addition to adult drama, there are numerous plays written for children and for holiday celebrations. A vast amount of dramatic material was written for amateur theatre, school and church productions, and community events. The sheer volume of these mostly unrewarded contributions is noteworthy, and this checklist should be consulted by researchers in women's studies as well as drama. Playwrights include such noted writers as Susan Glaspell and Zora Neale Hurston in addition to many unremembered women, some of whom have entries for scores of plays. The playwrights are listed in alphabetical order with their works following. Information is given on life dates as known, and the playwrights are keyed to inclusion in major biographical reference books if relevant. The type of dramatic presentation and number of acts is indicated, as is production and publication information as available; and, in almost all cases, at least one library or anthology source is given, coded to a list in the front of the book. Appendixes record contributions to several anthologies, and a selected bibliography completes the work.
Author : Katherine E. Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1134802374
Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement known as Modern Drama. It contains twelve plays by women from the Americas, Europe and Asia, spanning a national and stylistic range from Swedish realism to Russian symbolism. Six of these plays are appearing in their first English-language translation. Playwrights include: * Anne-Charlotte Leffler Edgren (Sweden) * Amelai Pincherle Rosselli (Italy) * Elsa Berstein (Germany) * Elizabeth Robins (Britain) * Marie Leneru (France) * Alfonsina Storni (Argentina) * Hella Wuolijoki (Finland) * Hasegawa Shigure (Japan) * Rachilde (France) * Zinaida Gippius (Russia) * Djuna Barnes (USA) * Marita Bonner (USA) This groundbreaking anthology explodes the traditional canon. In these plays, the New Woman represents herself and her crises in all of the styles and genres available to the modern dramatist. Unprecedented in diversity and scope, it is a collection which no scholar, student or lover of modern drama can afford to miss.
Author : Judith E. Barlow
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 2001-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1617746258
Offers a collection of classic plays by such women writers as Lillian Hellman, Gertrude Stein, Alice Childress, and Clare Boothe.