French Women Playwrights of the Twentieth Century: A Checklist

by Cecilia M. Beach

Overview

This checklist is witness to the vast and varied production of 20th-century French women playwrights. Like Beach's preceding volume, French Women Playwrights Before the Twentieth Century: A Checklist (Greenwood, 1994), this reference book presents an extensive list of dramatic works. Beach provides biographical information about the authors when known, as well as name variations (pseudonyms, maiden name, other marriages, etc.)

The plays are listed chronologically under each author's name, followed by a variety of information about each work: genre, the place and date of publication and performances, and the location of over 2000 texts in published or manuscript form in French holding libraries. The checklist also includes a title index and a bibliography. This book provides a useful research tool not only for scholars interested in drama and/or women's literature, but also for theatre professionals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313291753
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/18/1996
Series:	Bibliographies and Indexes in Women's Studies , #24
Pages:	536
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.12(d)

About the Author

Cecilia Beach received her PhD in French literature from New York University and is currently teaching at Ripon College in Wisconsin. She has also published French Women Playwrights Before the Twentieth Century: A Checklist (Greenwood 1994).

Table of Contents

Preface
Codes for Library References
French Women Playwrights of the Twentieth Century
Selected Bibliography
Title Index

Editorial Reviews

Beach has combed library catalogs, reference works, checklists of performances, theatrical periodicals, and literary studies to produce a checklist of thousands of plays by French women writers, some well known but most quite obscure, to complement her admirable earlier volume French Women Playwrights Before the Twentieth Century: A Checklist.” —Choice

From the Publisher

Extends Beach's 1994 treatment of French women playwrights before the 20th century, to provide a starting reference for scholars of theater and women's literature and a resource for theater professionals seeking plays to perform. Entries by the author's name provide her vital dates and professional activities, then list the plays with information on genre, number of acts, prose or verse, co-authors, places and dates of publication and first performance, and references to libraries or archives holding manuscripts or publications. Excludes plays by non-French women or published in other French-speaking countries, puppet theater, and plays for the music hall and cabaret; does include one-women shows for cafe-theaters. Indexed by title only. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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