Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s

Modern Drama By Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement known as Modern Drama. It contains twelve plays by women from the Americas, Europe and Asia, spanning a national and stylistic range from Swedish realism to Russian symbolism. Six of these plays are appearing in their first English-language translation. This groundbreaking anthology explodes the traditional canon. In these plays, the New Woman represents herself and her crises in all of the styles and genres available to the modern dramatist. Unprecedented in diversity and scope, it is a collection which no scholar, student or lover of modern drama can afford to miss.

List of contents

Anne-Charlotte Leffler Edgren (Sweden); Amelia Pincherie Rosselli (Italy); Elsa Bernstein (Germany); Elizabeth Robins (Britain); Marie Leneru (France); Alfonsina Storni (Argentina); Hella Wuolijoki (Finland); Hasegawa Shigure (Japan); Rachilde (France); Zinaida Gippius (Russia); Djuna Barnes (United States of America); Marita Bonner (United States of America)

About the author

Katherine E. Kelly

Summary

Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement first known as Modern Drama. It contains twelve plays by women from the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Product details

• Assisted by: Katherine E. Kelly (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.06.1996
• EAN: 9780415124935
• ISBN: 978-0-415-12493-5
• No. of pages: 330
• Weight: 770 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Theatre Studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights