List of abbreviations Notes on contributors Preface Acknowledgments Chronolagy STEPHANIE POACH Part I:Pioneers 1 Comedies by early American women AMELIAHOWE KRITZER 2 Women writing melodrama SARAH J.BLACKSTONE 3 Realism and feminism in the Progressive Fra PATRICIA R.SCHR OEDER 4 Susan Glaspell and modernism VERONICA MAKOWSKY 5 The expressionist moment:Sophie Treadwell JERRY DICKEY 6 Feminism and the marketplace:the career of Rachel Crothers BRENDA MURPHY 7 The Harlem Renaissance and the New Movement JUDITH L.STEPHENS 8 Lillian Hellman:feminism,formalism,and politics THOMASP.ADLER 9 From Harlem to Broadway:African American women playwrights at mid-century MARGARETB.WILKERSON 10 Feminist theory and contemporary drama JANETBROWN 11 Feminist theatre of the seventies in the Unied States HELENE KEYSSAR 12 Contemporary playwrights traditional forms LAURIN PORTER 13 Wendy Wasserstein:a feminist voice from the seventies to the present JANBALAKIAN 14 Contemporary American women playwringts:abrief survey of selected scholarship CHRISTY GAVIN 15 Discovering and recovering African American women playwrights writing before1930 CHRISTINE R.GRAY Works cited Index
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