She Also Wrote Plays

These two books are a boon to researchers, students, and performers with a solid commitment to, or even a mild curiosity about, the practice of feminist theatre. Susan Croft's She Also Wrote Plays bears evidence of the author's expertise as a curator of contemporary performance at the Theatre Museum in London. Approximately two thirds of the entries in Croft's guide are devoted to British and North American women playwrights of the later twentieth century. The remaining one third include entries for earlier writers, such as Elizabeth Inchbald and Jane Austen, as well as more recent women playwrights from Jamaica, India, Singapore, Israel, Denmark, Egypt, and other international locations. Further, Croft's book documents the dramas of authors widely known for their writing in other genres, such as fiction (e.g., Kathy Acker, Edna O'Brien), poetry (e.g., Michael Field, Edna St. Vincent Millay), or gender theory (e.g., Hélène Cixous)

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