New Women Dramatists in America, 1890-1920

by S. Engle

Overview

Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Sk of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This study rediscovers the lives and notable accomplishments of five prominent, yet historically neglected women dramatists of the Progressive Era: Martha Morton, Madeleine Lucette Ryley, Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland, Beulah Marie Dix, and Rida Johnson Young.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349534432
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	07/02/2008
Edition description:	1st ed. 2007
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

SHERRY ENGLE is Assistant Professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY), USA in Speech, Communication and Theatre Arts.

Table of Contents

The proliferation of women dramatists during America's Progressive Era Dean of women dramatists, Martha Morton, 1865-1925 : Plays of Martha Morton English-American Success, Madeleine Lucette Ryley, 1858-1934 Plays of Madeleine Lucette Ryley Collaborators extraordinaire, Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland, 1855-1908, and Beulah Marie Dix, 1875-1970: Plays of Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland and Beulah Marie Dix Dramatist, songwriter, and lyricist, Rida Johnson Young, 1875-1926: Plays and musicals of Rida Johnson Young Early feminists: setting examples for future generations

Editorial Reviews

"This book provides a detailed account of the lives of five American women playwrights who were highly successful in their times but whose work remains largely unexplored and neglected. It adds an exploration of the area of theatre to our understanding of the opportunities available to the professional woman writer at the time. The greatest strength of the project is in the enormous amount of contemporary material Engle has discovered and drawn on in her accounts. A lucid and engaging study." - Susan Croft, former Senior Curator at the Theater Museum; Author of She Also Wrote Plays: an International Guide to Women Playwrights

"Thorough and carefully documented...Engle places [these women's] dramas in the context of early twentieth-century Broadway theatre, demonstrating how these women fulfilled, perpetuated, and in a few cases transcended audiences' expectations" - Theatre Survey

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