List of abbreviations
Notes on contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronolagy
STEPHANIE POACH
Part I:Pioneers
1 Comedies by early American women
AMELIAHOWE KRITZER
2 Women writing melodrama
SARAH J.BLACKSTONE
3 Realism and feminism in the Progressive Fra
PATRICIA R.SCHR OEDER
4 Susan Glaspell and modernism
VERONICA MAKOWSKY
5 The expressionist moment:Sophie Treadwell
JERRY DICKEY
6 Feminism and the marketplace:the career of Rachel Crothers
BRENDA MURPHY
7 The Harlem Renaissance and the New Movement
JUDITH L.STEPHENS
8 Lillian Hellman:feminism,formalism,and politics
THOMASP.ADLER
9 From Harlem to Broadway:African American women playwrights at mid-century
MARGARETB.WILKERSON
10 Feminist theory and contemporary drama
JANETBROWN
11 Feminist theatre of the seventies in the Unied States
HELENE KEYSSAR
12 Contemporary playwrights traditional forms
LAURIN PORTER
13 Wendy Wasserstein:a feminist voice from the seventies to the present
JANBALAKIAN
14 Contemporary American women playwringts:abrief survey of selected scholarship
CHRISTY GAVIN
15 Discovering and recovering African American women playwrights writing before1930
CHRISTINE R.GRAY
Works cited
Index
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