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American Plays of the New Woman (Paperback)
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American Plays of the New Woman (Paperback)
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The battle of the sexes reached a near fever pitch in the early
years of the twentieth century, in the debate over the "proper"
role of women in a rapidly changing and increasingly industrialized
society. The six plays that Keith Newlin has selected for this book
nicely illustrate the conflicts of that time over such issues as
the double standard, the advent of the "New Woman" and
turn-of-the-century feminism, and the clash between a woman's
career and conventional marriage. The plays are: William Vaughn
Moody's The Great Divide (1906), Rachel Crothers's A Man's World
(1910), Augustus Thomas's As a Man Thinks (1911), Alice
Gerstenberg's Overtones (1913), Susan Glaspell's The Outside
(1917), and the first winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama, Jesse
Lynch Williams's Why Marry? (1917). Both commercial and
experimental plays are represented here, including two one-acts,
and ranging from symbolic drama to zesty comedy. The point, as Mr.
Newlin notes in his introduction, is not to recover significant
plays but to illustrate a vibrant social debate from both male and
female perspectives, and to do so in a range of dramatic form.
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