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Playwright Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006), author of The Heidi Chronicles, wrote topical, humorous plays addressing relationships among women and their families, taking the temperature of social moments from the 1960s onward to debate women's rightful place in their professional and personal lives. The playwright's popular plays continue to be produced on Broadway and in regional theaters around the country and the world. Wasserstein's emergence as a popular dramatist in the 1970s paralleled the emergence of the second-wave feminist movement in the United States, a cultural context reflected in the themes of her plays. Yet while some of her comedies and witty dramas were wildly successful, packing theaters and winning awards, feminists of the era often felt that the plays did not go far enough. Wendy Wasserstein provides a critical introduction and a feminist reappraisal of the significant plays of one of the most famous contemporary American women playwrights. Following a biographical introduction, chapters address each of her important plays, situating Wasserstein's work in the history of the US feminist movement and in a historical moment in which women artists continue to struggle for recognition.

Feminist criticism. --- Wasserstein, Wendy --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.

Drama --- Drama --- Drama --- American drama --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Study and teaching (Secondary) --- Hanff, Helene. --- Webster, John, --- Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, --- Odets, Clifford, --- Wilson, August. --- Gale, Zona, --- Williams, Tennessee, --- Gerstenberg, Alice. --- Sherwood, Robert E. --- Wasserstein, Wendy. --- Gilroy, Frank Daniel, --- Schary, Dore. --- Saroyan, William,

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This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theatre, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to the work of one or more playwrights and to a way of thinking about plays. Together they cover significant writers such as Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Sophie Treadwell, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Megan Terry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Beth Henley and Maria Irene Fornes. Playwrights are discussed in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the Harlem Renaissance, the feminist resurgence of the 1970s and feminist dramatic theory. A detailed chronology and illustrations enhance the volume, which also includes bibliographical essays on recent criticism and on African-American women playwrights before 1930.

Drama --- American literature: authors --- American drama --- Women and literature --- Théâtre américain --- Femmes et littérature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Femmes écrivains --- Histoire et critique --- History and criticism --- Théâtre américain --- Femmes et littérature --- Femmes écrivains --- Hellman, Lillian --- Glaspell, Susan --- United States --- Crothers, Rachel --- Treadwell, Sophie --- Wasserstein, Wendy --- English --- American Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Women and literature - United States --- American drama - Women authors --- American drama - Women authors - History and criticism --- United States of America --- AMERICAN DRAMA --- WOMEN AND LITERATURE --- WOMEN AUTHORS --- U.S. --- Race --- Feminism --- History --- Literature --- Writers --- Theatre --- Theory --- Blackness --- Book