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Literature, Drama



link to catalog page HOLMES, Weavers of Dreams, Unite!

Weavers of Dreams, Unite!

Actors' Unionism in Early Twentieth-Century America

Author: Sean P. Holmes
Pub Date: April 2013

Stage actors as workers   learn more...

link to catalog page MITCHELL, Living with Lynching

Living with Lynching

African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930

Author: Koritha Mitchell
Pub Date: Cloth: 2011; Paper: August 2012

The first full-length critical study of lynching plays in American culture   learn more...

link to catalog page RAMIREZ, La Voz Latina

La Voz Latina

Contemporary Plays and Performance Pieces by Latinas

Author: Edited by Elizabeth C. Ramírez and Catherine Casiano
Pub Date: June 2011

A timely collection of Latina performance pieces   learn more...

link to catalog page FLIOTSOS, American Women Stage Directors of the Twentieth Century Author: Anne Fliotsos and Wendy Vierow
Pub Date: July 2008

The first reference to focus on American women directors   learn more...

link to catalog page ANDERSON, Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama Author: Lisa M. Anderson
Pub Date: November 2008

An enlightening study of feminism in the work of seven black playwrights   learn more...

link to catalog page STEPHENS, The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson

The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson

From the New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement

Author: Edited and with an Introduction by Judith L. Stephens
Pub Date: March 2006

Recovering the stage work of one of America's finest black female writers   learn more...

link to catalog page DUNLAP, A History of the American Theatre from Its Origins to 1832 Author: William Dunlap
Pub Date: September 2005

The genesis of the American theatre as told by one of its founding fathers   learn more...

link to catalog page KOMAR, Reclaiming Klytemnestra

Reclaiming Klytemnestra

Revenge or Reconciliation

Author: Kathleen L. Komar
Pub Date: May 2003

The book explores why Klytemnestra, this very problematic female figure from ancient Greece, reemerges so insistently at the end of the last millennium and how late twentieth-century women writers reconceptualize the infamous queen.   learn more...

link to catalog page HAVIS, American Political Plays Author: Edited by Allan Havis
Pub Date: 2001

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link to catalog page MAHAR, Behind the Burnt Cork Mask

Behind the Burnt Cork Mask

Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture

Author: William J. Mahar
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 1999

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