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It is heartening to see at last a book that demonstrates the impressive range of achievements by American women playwrights in the first half of our century. Yvonne Shafer covers the works and days of both familiar and unsung women dramatists. A number of African American women playwrights find their rightful places alongside the more familiar names. Apart from a short, contributed section by Ted Shine, these dramatists are neither segregated nor categorized. What is effectively a 'color-blind' treatment allows their work to shine on its own merit - (Felicia Londre, Curators' Professor of Theatre, University of Missouri - Kansas City) It's amazing how little has been written or said about the women playwrights in America before our time. But their careers, in addition to being exciting and productive, were heroic. Yvonne Shafer's lovingly detailed, beautifully written book about them brings this heroism alive, and helps us understand what is behind these plays and what makes them so urgent, compelling, and worthy of new productions. It's a great, and invaluable, read. (Austin Pendleton, Actor/Director) Yvonne Shafer's 'American Women Playwrights - 1900-1950' is an important book, which presents an analysis of the many plays written by women in the American theater in the first half of the twentieth century and purports to demonstrate influential achievements of these women. (Alain Piette, Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire)

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The Author: Yvonne Shafer has taught theatre at the University of Colorado, the University of Georgia and such diverse locations as Oslo, Berlin, and Nanjing, China. Her work includes theatre articles in American and international journals and she is editor of Ibsen News and Comment. She has interviewed such figures as Princess Grace, Eva Le Gallienne, and August Wilson for The New York Times, Theater Week, and other publications. Her last book was The Play's the Thing with Marvin Carlson. Shafer is the recipient of numerous grants for theatre research in this country and abroad. She is presently a Fulbright Professor in Brussels.

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