Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in History and Criticism

by Carlos L. Dews and Robert L. McDonald

This timely collection addresses the neglected state of scholarship on southern women dramatists by bringing together the latest criticism on some of the most important playwrights of the 20th century.

Coeditors Robert McDonald and Linda Rohrer Paige attribute the neglect of southern women playwrights in scholarly criticism to "deep historical prejudices" against drama itself and against women artists in general, especially in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817310800
• ISBN13: 9780817310806
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"