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Plays and performance texts by women, 1880-1930 : an anthology of plays by British and American women from the modernist period /
"This groundbreaking anthology, part of the Women, Theatre and Performance series, brings together an extraordinary mix of one-act and full length plays and solo performance texts written by women. Included in the volume are texts by Beatrice Herford, Ruth Draper, Zora Neale Hurston and G.B. St...
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Manchester, UK ;
Manchester University Press ;
2012.
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| Series: | Women, theatre and performance
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1312/2011277749-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1312/2011277749-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1312/2011277749-t.html |
Table of Contents:
- Section I: Plays Edited with an Overview and Introduction / Maggie B. Gale. Georgina Weldon, Not Alone (1886) ; Clothilde Graves A Mother of Three (1896) ; Edith Lyttelton, Warp and Woof (1904) ; Votes for Women (1907) / Elizabeth Robins
- Edith (1912) / Elizabeth Baker
- Ourselves (1913) / Rachel Crothers
- Our Ostriches (1923) / Marie Stopes
- Machinal (1928) / Sophie Treadwell
- Nine Till Six (1930) / Aimée and Phillip Stuart
- Lawing and Jawing and Poker (1931) / Zora Neale Hurston
- The Man Who Pays The Piper (1931) / G. B. Stern.
- Section II: Monologues Edited with an Introduction / Gilli Bush-Bailey. May Isabel Fisk 'The Art of Giving a Monologue' (Date of Publication: 1914) / At the Theatre (Date of Publication: 1907) / May Isabel Fisk
- At the Opticians (Date of Publication: 1927) / Beatrice Herford
- The Home-Coming of Jack O'Neill (Date of Publication: 1913) / Josephine A. M. Morris
- Cheering up Maria (Date of Publication: 1927) / Mabel Constanduros
- from Live at the Greek Theatre / Jackie 'Moms' Mabley
- Ruth Draper Doctors and Diets (Date of Publication: 1960).