About North American Women's Drama

Subject
North American Women's Drama brings together more than 1,500 plays by more than 300 playwrights, along with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

Over 30% of the plays included here have never been published before. The database also includes selected playbills, photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. North American Women’s Drama is publishing the full text of plays by more than 300 women from North America. The collection will be of particular interest to students of feminism and for women’s studies.

Sources
This is the sixth release of North American Women's Drama. This release of the database includes approximately 1,517 plays by 330 playwrights. Included here are plays by Susan Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, Zona Gale, Rachel Crothers, Zoe Akins, Edna Ferber, Anita Loos, Zora Neale Hurston, Hallie Flanagan, Gertrude Stein, Maryat Lee, Alice Childress, Cherrie Moraga, Marsha Norman, Emily Mann, Jane Martin, Beth Henley, Susan Sontag, Nora Ephron, Jane Chambers, Diane Glancy, Kathy Acker, Karen Malpede, Theresa Rebeck, Joan Schenkar, Paula Cizmar, Laura Shamas, Maria Irene Fornes, and many others.

Coverage
The collection begins with the works of Mercy Otis Warren and Susanna Haswell Rowson in colonial times and spans the 19th and 20th centuries to the present.

Provider
Alexander Street Press

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Created: 1/8/2008.