Description
Book SynopsisAn exciting new anthology of plays and performance texts by British and American women from the late nineteenth century to the early 1930s. Written in an accessible style for students it contains an overview and two introductory essays, as well as biographical materials on each of the writers. -- .
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
List of illustrations
Section I: Plays
Edited with an Overview and Introduction by Maggie B. Gale
1 Georgina Weldon, Not Alone (1886)
1.1 Clothilde Graves A Mother of Three (1896)
1.2 Edith Lyttelton, Warp and Woof (1904)
1.3 Elizabeth Robins, Votes for Women (1907)
1.4 Elizabeth Baker, Edith (1912)
1.5 Rachel Crothers, Ourselves (1913)
1.6 Marie Stopes, Our Ostriches (1923)
1.7 Sophie Treadwell, Machinal (1928)
1.8 Aimée and Phillip Stuart, Nine Till Six (1930)
1.9 Zora Neale Hurston, Lawing and Jawing and Poker (1931)
1.10 G. B. Stern, The Man Who Pays The Piper (1931)
Section II: Monologues
Edited with an Introduction by Gilli Bush-Bailey
2 May Isabel Fisk ‘The Art of Giving a Monologue’ (Date of Publication: 1914)
2.1 May Isabel Fisk, At the Theatre (Date of Publication: 1907)
2.2 Beatrice Herford, At the Opticians (Date of Publication: 1927)
2.3 Josephine A. M. Morris The Home-Coming of Jack O’Neill (Date of Publication: 1913)
2.4 Mabel Constanduros, Cheering up Maria (Date of Publication: 1927)
2.5 Jackie ‘Moms’ Mabley, from Live at the Greek Theatre
2.6 Ruth Draper Doctors and Diets (Date of Publication: 1960)
