Early American Women Dramatists 1780 1860

Author : Zoe Desti-Demanti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317776383

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Early American Women Dramatists, 1780-1860 by Zoe Desti-Demanti Pdf

First published in 1999. Although contemporary feminist criticism has mainly focused upon American women playwrights of the twentieth century-women, there is evidence that a feminist tradition rooted deep in the nationalistic and democratic impulses of the American nation existed more than a hundred years before these women started writing. It may come as a surprise to some readers that a significant but overlooked number of women playwrights vitally contributed to the development of early American drama. This study covers the period between 1775 and 1860, a time when American men and women struggled to define themselves and their place in response to the radical economic and institutional transformations which characterized that period. Based on the assumption that women's experience of the world differs from men's, the author tries to show that the plays of my study are sites of gender inscriptions as well as collective evidence that late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century men and women were affected differently by the economic, political, and social changes that were taking place in America at that time.

Author : Zoe Detsi-Diamanti
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0815333048

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Early American Women Dramatists, 1775-1860 by Zoe Detsi-Diamanti Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810878334

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Historical Dictionary of American Theater by James Fisher Pdf

Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of theater as well as the literature of America from 1538 to 1880. The years covered by this volume features the rise of the popular stage in American during the colonial era and the first century of the United States of America, with an emphasis on its practitioners, including such figures as Lewis Hallam, David Douglass, Mercy Otis Warren, Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman, Joseph Jefferson, Ida Aldridge, Dion Boucicault, Edwin Booth, and many others. The Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of early American Theatre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on actors and actresses, directors, playwrights, producers, genres, notable plays and theatres. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the early American Theater.

Author : Ekaterini Georgoudaki,Domna Pastourmatzi,Ελληνική Εταιρεία Αμερικανικών Σπουδών
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021481796

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Women, Creators of Culture by Ekaterini Georgoudaki,Domna Pastourmatzi,Ελληνική Εταιρεία Αμερικανικών Σπουδών Pdf

Author : Betsy Klimasmith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192661357

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Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City by Betsy Klimasmith Pdf

Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City sheds new light on the literature of the early US by exploring how literature, theatre, architecture, and images worked together to allow readers to imagine themselves as urbanites even before cities developed. In the four decades following the Revolutionary War, the new nation was a loose network of nascent cities connected by print. Before a national culture could develop, local city cultures took shape; literary texts played key roles in helping new Americans become city people. Drawing on extensive archival research, Urban Rehearsals argues that literature, particularly novels and plays, allowed Bostonians to navigate the transition from colonial town to post-revolution city, enabled Philadelphians to grieve their experiences of the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic and rebuild in the epidemic's aftermath, and showed New Yorkers how the domestic practices that reinforced their urbanity could be opened to the broader public. Throughout, attention to underrepresented voices and texts calls attention to the possibilities for women, immigrants, and Black Americans in developing urban spaces, while showing how those possibilities would be foreclosed as the nation developed. Balancing attention to canonical texts of the early Republic, including The Power of Sympathy, Charlotte Temple, and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, with novels whose depiction of early cities deserves greater attention, such as Ormond, The Boarding-School, Monima, and Kelroy, this volume shows how US cities developed on the pages and stages of the early Republic, building urban imaginations that would construct the nation's early cities.

Author : Brenda Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521576806

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The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights by Brenda Murphy Pdf

This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theatre, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to the work of one or more playwrights and to a way of thinking about plays. Together they cover significant writers such as Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Sophie Treadwell, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Megan Terry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Beth Henley and Maria Irene Fornes. Playwrights are discussed in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the Harlem Renaissance, the feminist resurgence of the 1970s and feminist dramatic theory. A detailed chronology and illustrations enhance the volume, which also includes bibliographical essays on recent criticism and on African-American women playwrights before 1930.

Author : Judith E. Barlow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003785891

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Plays by American Women by Judith E. Barlow Pdf

"Women writing for the stage today are the heirs of a neglected but not negligible tradition. This anthology brings together for the first time five of the best plays written by America's 'forgotten' women playwrights before 1930. Fasion is a social comedy that brilliantly satirizes the status-hungry nouveau riche of urban America; A Man's World examines the working woman's domain and the injustice of the double standard; Trifles is a perfectly constructed short play about a woman accused of murdering her husband; Miss Lulu Bett, the first play by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, is about a single woman who becomes virtually enslaved by her family; and Machinal portrays a young woman trapped in a materialistic machine age. This outstanding collection of plays explores the choices and changes that have challenged women for generations--through five fresh, timeless voices."--Back cover.

Author : Amelia Howe Kritzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018400635

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Plays by Early American Women, 1775-1850 by Amelia Howe Kritzer Pdf

Highlights the achievements and significance of women playwrights in early American drama.

Author : Heather Nathans
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780472130306

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Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans by Heather Nathans Pdf

Shows how the earliest representations of Jewish characters on American stages mirrored treatment of Jewish Americans outside the playhouse

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3054 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022290980

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Subject Guide to Books in Print by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven C. Bullock
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812248609

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Tea Sets and Tyranny by Steven C. Bullock Pdf

Tea Sets and Tyranny offers a political history of politeness in early America, from its origins in the late seventeenth century to its remaking in the age of the Revolution.

Author : Adrienne Scullion
Publisher : Everyman
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0460877291

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Female Playwrights of the Nineteenth Century by Adrienne Scullion Pdf

From Romantic verse drama to historical tragrdy, this collection of plays is a necessary contribution to a full understanding of the nineteenth-century theatrical and the development of modern theatre, including works by Joanna Baille and Mrs Henry Wood.

Author : Margarete Rubik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : English drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022848837

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Early Women Dramatists, 1550-1800 by Margarete Rubik Pdf

This is a comprehensive survey of women's drama between the Renaissance and the end of the 18th century, assessing the plays' characteristic features and the ruptures in the text that indicate the writers' precarious social and artistic position and the ambiguous stances to their own creativity and sex. Chapters are devoted to individual writers as well as to general developments in specific periods. The most significant plays are analysed in detail and related to the male literary canon of the time in order to stress both their originality and the existence of an, albeit tentative, female literary canon.

Author : Marcia Noe
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253061850

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Three Midwestern Playwrights by Marcia Noe Pdf

In the early 1900s, three small-town midwestern playwrights helped shepherd American theatre into the modern era. Together, they created the renowned Provincetown Players collective, which not only launched many careers but also had the power to affect US social, cultural, and political beliefs. The philosophical and political orientations of Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell generated a theatre practice marked by experimentalism, collaboration, leftist cultural critique, rebellion, liberation, and community engagement. In Three Midwestern Playwrights, Marcia Noe situates the origin of the Provincetown aesthetic in Davenport, Iowa, a Mississippi River town. All three playwrights recognized that radical politics sometimes begat radical chic, and several of their plays satirize the faddish elements of the progressive political, social, and cultural movements they were active in. Three Midwestern Playwrights brings the players to life and deftly illustrates how Dell, Cook, and Glaspell joined early 20th-century midwestern radicalism with East Coast avant-garde drama, resulting in a fresh and energetic contribution to American theatre.

Author : Kym Bird
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228023517

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Blowing up the Skirt of History by Kym Bird Pdf

From history and politics to fantasy and farce, the first flourish of women's theatre in Canada questioned the discourses that formed and informed ideas of gender, sex, and sexuality. This book revives ten theatrical comedies that staged the promise of social change.