Plays by and about Women

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$21.00 US
4.28"W x 7.25"H x 0.98"D  
On sale Jan 12, 1974 | 448 Pages | 9780394718965
Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

The theater has always been considered a mirror of its time, and many twentieth-century plays have reflected changing views of women. A large number of these, however, have been by men. Here is a volume of eight plays, all written in this century, in which leading women dramatists present their own pictures of their sex. Includes: Overtones by Alice Gerstenberg, The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman, The Women by Clare Boothe, Play with a Tiger by Doris Lessing, Calm Down Mother by Megan Terry, The Advertisement by Natalia Ginzburg, Rites by Maureen Duffy, and Wine in the Wilderness by Alice Childress.

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The theater has always been considered a mirror of its time, and many twentieth-century plays have reflected changing views of women. A large number of these, however, have been by men. Here is a volume of eight plays, all written in this century, in which leading women dramatists present their own pictures of their sex. Includes: Overtones by Alice Gerstenberg, The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman, The Women by Clare Boothe, Play with a Tiger by Doris Lessing, Calm Down Mother by Megan Terry, The Advertisement by Natalia Ginzburg, Rites by Maureen Duffy, and Wine in the Wilderness by Alice Childress.

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