Claire Tylee, Elaine Turner and Agnes Cardinal (Ed
Title: War Plays By Women
Bookseller Book No.: 000598
Price: US$ 8.39

Book Description: Softcover. 225pp 8vo. Book Condition: Very Good - missing ffep

Comprised of ten plays from countries involved in World War I, this anthology also includes plays from Germany and France never before available in English. The playwrights reconstruct imagined communities, challenge concepts of national identity, and rewrite history. Representing a range of dramatic forms, from radio play to street-epic, the comic sketch to musical, this work includes plays by Muriel Box, Marion Wentworth Craig, Dorothy Hewitt, Berta Lask, Marie Leneru, Wendy Lill, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Christina Reid, and Gertrude Stein.

Comprised of ten plays from countries involved in World War I, this anthology also includes plays from Germany and France never before available in English. The playwrights reconstruct imagined communities, challenge concepts of national identity, and rewrite history. Representing a range of dramatic forms, from radio play to street-epic, the comic sketch to musical, this work includes plays by Muriel Box, Marion Wentworth Craig, Dorothy Hewitt, Berta Lask, Marie Leneru, Wendy Lill, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Christina Reid, and Gertrude Stein.



Tables of Contents for War Plays by Women


General Introduction2
Introduction14
Marion Craig Wentworth
War Brides (USA 1915: one-act play and film)
16
11
Feminist anti-war play
Introduction
27
9
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Mine Eyes Have Seen (USA 1918: one-act play)
31
5
African-American recruitment play
Introduction
36
10
Gertrude Stein
Please Do Not Suffer: A Play (USA 1916)
40
3
Accents in Alsace: A Reasonable Tragedy (USA 1919)
43
3
Modernist sketches of civilian life in France
Introduction
46
35
Marie Leneru
[La Paix] Peace (France 1918: four-act play)
50
31
French play debating pacifism and militarism
Introduction
81
30
Berta Lask
[Die Befreiung] Liberation: 16 Tableaux from the Lives of German and Russian Women, 1914-20 (Germany 1924: play in 16 scenes)
85
26
Epic drama about women on the Eastern Front
Introduction
111
29
Muriel Box
Angels of War (UK 1935: three-act play)
115
25
Play for amateurs about British women ambulance drivers on the Western Front
Introduction
140
45
Dorothy Hewett
The Man from Mukinupin (Australia 1979: two-act musical)
143
42
A celebration of Western Australian identity
Introduction
185
25
Wendy Lill
The Fighting Days (Canada 1984: two acts)
188
22
Episodes in the life of Francis Marion Beynon, Canadian suffragist
Introduction
210
14
Christina Reid
My Name, Shall I Tell You My Name (N. Ireland 1988: one-act radio play)
213
11
The Great War and the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Appendix: Checklist of war plays by women, 1915--39