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American Women Playwrights, 1900-1930 - A Checklist (Hardcover, New)
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American Women Playwrights, 1900-1930 - A Checklist (Hardcover, New)
Series: Bibliographies and Indexes in Women's Studies
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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.
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