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008 810701s1981 nyu b 000 d eng
010 _a80068411
020 _a0380766205
_q(paperback)
020 _a9780380766208
_q(paperback)
020 _a071001003956
_q(paperback)
035 _a(OCoLC)07114032
040 _aDLC
_beng
_cDLC
_dDLC
_dBAUN
_erda
041 0 _aeng
049 _aBAUN_MERKEZ
050 1 4 _aPS628.W6
_bP59 1981
082 0 0 _219
245 0 0 _aPlays by American women :
_bthe early years /
_cedited and with an introduction by Judith E. Barlow.
264 1 _aNew York, N.Y. :
_bAvon Books,
_c[1981]
264 4 _c©1981
300 _axxxii, 334 pages ;
_c18 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _a"A Bard book."
504 _aBibliography: pages 331-334.
505 0 0 _tFashion
_r/ Anna Cora Mowatt
_t-- A man's world
_r/ Rachel Crothers
_t-- Trifles
_r/ Susan Glaspell
_t-- Miss Lulu Bett
_r/ Zona Gale
_t-- Machinal
_r/ Sophie Treadwell.
520 _a"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.
650 0 _aAmerican drama
_xWomen authors.
_9120198
650 0 _aAmerican drama
_y19th century.
_9120199
650 0 _aAmerican drama
_y20th century.
_960515
700 1 _aBarlow, Judith E.
_eedt
_9120200
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_cKT
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