American Women Playwrights, 1900-1950: Second Printing - Tapa blanda

-It is heartening to see at last a book that demonstrates the impressive range of achievements by American women playwrights in the first half of our century. Yvonne Shafer covers the works and days of both familiar and unsung women dramatists. A number of African American women playwrights find their rightful places alongside the more familiar names. Apart from a short, contributed section by Ted Shine, these dramatists are neither segregated nor categorized. What is effectively a 'color-blind' treatment allows their work to shine on its own merit- - (Felicia Londre, Curators' Professor of Theatre, University of Missouri - Kansas City)
-It's amazing how little has been written or said about the women playwrights in America before our time. But their careers, in addition to being exciting and productive, were heroic. Yvonne Shafer's lovingly detailed, beautifully written book about them brings this heroism alive, and helps us understand what is behind these plays and what makes them so urgent, compelling, and worthy of new productions. It's a great, and invaluable, read.- (Austin Pendleton, Actor/Director)
-Yvonne Shafer's 'American Women Playwrights - 1900-1950' is an important book, which presents an analysis of the many plays written by women in the American theater in the first half of the twentieth century and purports to demonstrate influential achievements of these women.- (Alain Piette, Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire)
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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.