French Women Playwrights of the Twentieth Century

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.