War plays by women Book

Acknowledgements

Illustrations

General Introduction

Marion Wentworth Craig (1872- ) Introduction

War Brides (USA 1915-One Act Play and Film)

Influential American feminist anti-war play by pre-war suffragist

Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875-1935) Introduction

Mine Eyes Have Seen (USA 1918-One Act Playlet)

African-American recruitment play, debating issues of race, patriotism, national identity

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) Introduction

Please Do Not Suffer: A Play & Accents in Alsace: A Reasonable Tragedy (USA 1916/1919)

Experimental plays on civilian life in war-time and post-war France, by significant modernist

Marie Leneru (1875-1918) Introduction

[La Paix] Peace (France 1918/1922-Four Acts)

French play debating pacifism, militarism and the need for a permanent peace conference

Berta Lask (1878-1967) Introduction

[Die Befreiung] Liberation: 16 Tableaux of the Lives of German and Russian Women, 1914-1920 (Germany 1924-Play in 16 Scenes)

Post-war epic drama about women on the Eastern Front by important German Marxist

Muriel Box (1905-91) Introduction

Angels of War (UK 1935-Play in Three Acts)

Play for amateurs about British women ambulance drivers on the Western Front, 1917-18

Dorothy Hewett (1923- ) Introduction

The Man From Mukinupin (Australia 1979-Two Act Musical)

Commissioned by Perth National Theatre for the sesquicentennial celebrations of West Australia

Sheila Rowbotham (1943- ) Introduction

Friends of Alice Wheeldon (UK 1980-Five Act)

History of British governmental suppression of anti-conscription networks during the Great War

Wendy Lill (1950- ) Introduction

The Fighting Days (Canada 1984-Two Act)

Based on the life and writing of Francis Marion Beynon, Canadian author, suffragist, and pacifist

Christina Reid (1942- ) Introduction

My Name, Shall I Tell You My Name (North Ireland 1989, One Act Radio-Play)

Irish veteran of the Somme versus his granddaughter, who is in prison over Greenham Common

Appendix Checklist of war-plays by women, 1915-1939