| Staging Separate Spheres: Theatrical Spaces as Sites of Antagonism in One-Act Plays by American Women, 1910-1930- Including Bibliographies on On Contributor(s): Hebel, Udo (Editor), Berger, Dieter A. (Editor), Auflitsch, Susanne (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631543883 ISBN-13: 9783631543887 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $120.08 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General - Literary Criticism | American - General - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language |
| Dewey: 812.041 |
| LCCN: 2005057914 |
| Series: Regensburger Arbeiten Zur Anglistik Und Amerikanistik / Rege |
| Physical Information: 388 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: During the first half of the 20th century approximately 10,000 short plays were written in the United States. This book examines twenty one-act plays by authors such as Mary Shaw, Susan Glaspell, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who wrote from such diverse backgrounds as women's clubs, art theaters, or commercial theaters. This study argues that the plays share a structural organization along spatial dichotomies of theatrical space within and theatrical space without. While some writers use the underlying structure of separate spheres and organize place and space in order to promote a broader definition of domesticity , the spatial configurations in other plays are read as appropriations, affirmations, negotiations, subversions, or transgressions of the separate spheres dichotomy. Substantial bibliographies documenting the productivity of the one-act genre supplement this study. |
