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Highlights the achievements and significance of women playwrights in early American drama.
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"Plays by Early American Women: 1775-1850" provides a comprehensive view of American women's engagement with drama. Standard histories and anthologies of American theater and drama have paid scant attention to women although they actively participated in the formation of a distinctively American drama and were vital in the production of that drama before the twentieth century. The plays in this collection- "The Group" (1775) by Mercy Otis Warren, "Slaves in Algiers "(1794) by Susanna Haswell Rowson, "The Traveller Returned" (1796) by Judith Sargent Murray, "The Female Enthusiast" (1807) by Sarah Pogson, "The Fair Americans "(1815) by Mary Carr Clarke, "Altorf" (1819) by Frances Wright, "Ernest Maltravers" (1838) by Louisa Medina, and "The Forest Princess" (1844) by Charlotte Barnes Conner- amply demonstrate the range, strength, popularity, and importance of women's dramatic writing during that period.Running the gamut of subject and style these plays, several of them exceptionally stageworthy, indicate the ways in which early American women defined themselves and serve to highlight common patterns in their experience of day-to-day life. At the same time, they construct ideal images of the American woman that were often explicitly held up for emulation by playwrights who evinced a lively concern with defining what it meant to be American.The book includes an introduction that discusses historical context and presents a short biography of each playwright and bibliography of American women playwrights to 1900, with over a thousand entries. This anthology is thus a valuable resource for historians, researchers, and students of American literature, American drama, and women's studies."The selection of works is excellent. I can't imagine teaching a nineteenth-century American theater history course without it. With this book, such courses can set female dramatists side-by-side with novelists, essayists, and poets."--Rosemarie K. Bank, Kent State UniversityAmelia Howe Kritzer is Assistant Professor of Theater, West Virginia University. She is author of "The Plays of Caryl Churchill: Theatre of Empowerment" (Macmillan).
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- EditorialThe University of Michigan Press
- Año de publicación2018
- ISBN 10 0472095986
- ISBN 13 9780472095988
- EncuadernaciónTapa dura
- Número de páginas448
- EditorKritzer Amelia Howe
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