Traces the contributions of women to the American theater and offers the texts of five plays that deal with a sick child, a murdered husband, and family life

"Women writing for the stage today are the heirs of a neglected but not negligible tradition. This anthology brings together for the first time five of the best

Offers a collection of classic plays by such women writers as Lillian Hellman, Gertrude Stein, Alice Childress, and Clare Boothe.

The first three decades of the twentieth century saw the New Woman writing an astonishing array of dramatic presentations. This checklist, gleaned from hundreds