This timely collection addresses the neglected state of scholarship on southern women dramatists by bringing together the latest criticism on some of the most important playwrights of the 20th century.
Coeditors Robert McDonald and Linda Rohrer Paige attribute the neglect of southern women playwrights in scholarly criticism to "deep historical prejudices" against drama itself and against women artists in general, especially in the South. Their call for critical awareness is answered by the 15 essays they include in Southern Women Playwrights, considerations of the creative work of universally acclaimed playwrights such as Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, and Lillian Hellman (the so-called "Trinity") in addition to that of less-studied playwrights, including Zora Neale Hurston, Carson McCullers, Alice Childress, Naomi Wallace, Amparo Garcia, Paula Vogel, and Regina Porter.
This collection springs from a series of associated questions regarding the literary and theatrical heritage of the southern woman playwright, the unique ways in which southern women have approached the conventional modes of comedy and tragedy, and the ways in which the South, its types and stereotypes, its peculiarities, its traditions-both literary and cultural-figure in these women's plays. Especially relevant to these questions are essays on Lillian Hellman, who resisted the label "southern writer," and Carson McCullers, who never attempted to ignore her southernness.
This book begins by recovering little-known or unknown episodes in the history of southern drama and by examining the ways plays assumed importance in the lives of southern women in the early 20th century. It concludes with a look at one of the most vibrant, diverse theatre scenes outside New York today-Atlanta.
In Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender, author Casey Kayser addresses these gaps by examining the work of southern women playwrights, making the argument that representations of the American South on ...
This entertaining book honors southern playwrights in a collection of works that have premiered at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
——Lavender Lizards and the Lilac Landmines: Layla's Dream 2003. Sharp, Christopher. “spell #7: A Geechee Quick Magic Trance Manual,” Women's Wear Daily (4 June, 1979), cited in New York Theatre Critics' Reviews 40 (1979): 109.
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,...
Barlow, Judith E. Plays by American Women: The Early Years. Avon Books, 1981. ... “Lynn Nottage on Her Pulitzer Win for Drama: I'm Representing for Women. ... The Mammary Plays: How I Learned to Drive; The Mineola Twins.
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,...
PLA Y : AURORA FLOYD PLA Y WRIGHT: GAYLER 20 APR 1863 AT NIBLO'S GARDEN THEATRE, NYC ODELL (VII, 486) Aurora Floyd by Miss Matilda Heron; Steve Hargrave by George Jamieson; John Mellish by L.R. Shewell; Archibald Floyd by C. Kingsland; ...
Scholars have become increasingly interested in examining the reading habits of colonial women and the influence that literacy had on their everyday lives . Kevin J. Hayes , in his A Colonial Woman's Bookshelf ( 1996 ) , for instance ...
In 1982, she was distinguished writer in Afro-American studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and later that same year was Fannie Hurst professor of literature at Brandeis University. Walker is an editor of Ms. and the ...
" Elin Diamond, Rutgers University, USA This volume celebrates the iconoclastic power of six American women playwrights who pushed the boundaries of the form outside the box of conventional drama.