Women in Turmoil: Six Plays by Mercedes de Acosta

Book Overview

In this first publication of six plays by the flamboyantly uninhibited author, poet, and playwright Mercedes de Acosta (1893-1968), theater historian Robert A. Schanke rescues these lost theatrical writings from the dusty margins of obscurity. Often autobiographical, always rife with gender struggle, and still decidedly stageworthy, Women in Turmoil: Six Plays by Mercedes de Acosta constitutes a significant find for the canon of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809325101
• ISBN13: 9780809325108
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"