TY  - BOOK
AU  - Susanne Auflitsch
PY  - 2006
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Staging Separate Spheres
T2  - Theatrical Spaces as Sites of Antagonism in One-Act Plays by American Women, 1910–1930- Including Bibliographies on One-Act Plays in the United States, 1900–1940
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1100004
N2  - During the first half of the 20th century approximately 10,000 short plays were written in the United States. This book examines twenty one-act plays by authors such as Mary Shaw, Susan Glaspell, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who wrote from such diverse backgrounds as women’s clubs, art theaters, or commercial theaters. This study argues that the plays share a structural organization along spatial dichotomies of theatrical space within and theatrical space without. While some writers use the underlying structure of separate spheres and organize place and space in order to promote a broader definition of «domesticity», the spatial configurations in other plays are read as appropriations, affirmations, negotiations, subversions, or transgressions of the separate spheres dichotomy. Substantial bibliographies documenting the productivity of the one-act genre supplement this study.
KW  - Geschichte 1910-1930, Suffrage Drama, Einakter, Frauendrama, Haus (Motiv), Frauenemanzipation (Motiv), Women's Playwright, Women's Drama, USA
LA  - English
ER  -