Modern Drama By Women 1880s-1930s
Subtitle: An International Anthology
Publisher: Routledge
Published: July 19, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780415124942
First sentence: In retrospect, the "modern breakthrough" in Scandinavia emerges as dominated by Ibsen and Strindberg.
Description: Modern Drama By Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement known as Modern Drama. It contains twelve plays by women from the Americas, Europe and Asia, spanning a national and stylistic range from Swedish realism to Russian symbolism. Six of these plays are appearing in their first English-language translation.

This groundbreaking anthology explodes the traditional canon. In these plays, the New Woman represents herself and her crises in all of the styles and genres available to the modern dramatist. Unprecedented in diversity and scope, it is a collection which no scholar, student or lover of modern drama can afford to miss.