American Women Writers and Modern Drama
Contents: Preface. 1. Alice Gerstenberg (1885-4972). 2. Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935). 3. Anita Loos (1893-1981). 4. Anne Nichols (1891-1966). 5. Bella Spewack 1899-1990). 6. Carson Mccullers (1917-1967). 7. Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987). 8. Clare Kummer (1873-1958). 9. Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901-1979). 10. Dorothy Heyward (1890-1961). 11. Dorothy Parker (1893-1967). 12. Edna Ferber (1885-1968). 13. Elsa Shelley (1905-1968). 14. Eulalie Spence (1894-1981). 15. Fay Kanin (1916). 16. Josephine Preston Peabody (1874-1922). 17. Lillian Hellman (1905-1984). 18. Lula Vollmer (1898-1955). 19. Mae West (1892-1980). 20. Marita Bonner (1899-1971). 21. Mary Coyle Chase (1907-1981). 22. Martha Morton (1865-1925). 23. Maurine Watkins (1900-1968). 24. May Miller (1899). 25. Rachel Crothes (1876-1958). 26. Rida Johnson Young (1857-1926). 27. Rose Dorothy Lewin Franken (1895-1988). 28. Sophie Treadwell (1885-1970). 29. Susan Glaspell (1876-1948). 30. Zona Ga;le (1874-1938). 31. Zora Neale Hurtson (1891-1960). Bibliography. Index.
American writing began with the work of English adventures and colonists in the new world chiefly for the benefit of readers in the mother county. The drama of the United States is considered a bastard child of literature; like all plays, they are apparently banished by the academy into their own genre. But unlike those other international plays, they have received little due even from American critics. American drama that underwent considerable sea-change, American dramatists clearly did not wait for the development of the off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway stages of the 1950s and 1960s to forge new paths. The American dramatists experimented with their form for Broadway audiences does not undermine the validity of that experimentation, but that too is the result of history and does not reflect the status of the Broadway stage at the time.
