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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Sophie Treadwell."”.
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The Machine's Effect on the Psyche of the American Woman: A Dramaturgical Analysis of Machinal by Sophie Treadwell
<p>Sophie Treadwell's style is often associated with the male contemporaries of her time: Eugene O'Neill and Elmer Rice. During the 1920s, these writers were being influenced by German Expressionistic theatre in a way that the American stage had not yet witnessed. Expressionistic drama is …
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Battles of the sexes onstage: explorations of changing Gender roles by four American women playwrights of the 1910s-1930s
… plays by Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, and Dawn Powell in order to discover how these playwrights dealt with changing female social roles throughout the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s. To provide a context for analysis, the first chapter includes an overview of major events in …
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Before Crenshaw: a historiographical look at intersectional identity in three twentieth-century American plays by Eaton, Grimké, and Treadwell
… female leads from<em>Hope for a Harvest</em> by Sophie Treadwell are analyzed. Each chapter will also investigate the strong autobiographical ties the playwrights have to their material in terms of intersectional identity and historical context.</p>
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No Way Out: Violence in Selected American Expressionist Plays
… plays of Eugene O’Neill, Elmer Rice, Sophie Treadwell, and Susan Glaspell all feature some type of violent death. These types of violence can be seen in German expressionist plays, as well as in proto-expressionist plays. The acts of violence are a recurring motif of expressionism, and …
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Buried underground : The Subway's contribution to American theatre.
… history, coupled with critical comparison to Sophie Treadwell's Machinal (1928). Rice speaks little on the play, giving the entirety of its production history a mere three paragraphs in his autobiography, Minority Report (1963). Despite this, Rice believed the play to be a greater example of …