This timely collection addresses the neglected state of scholarship on southern women dramatists by bringing together the latest criticism on some of the most i

Winner of the 2021 Eudora Welty Prize In contrast to other literary genres, drama has received little attention in southern studies, and women playwrights in ge

Stories by Southern women. In Tina McElroy Ansa's Sarah, two girls pretend they are their parents making love, while Lee Smith's Tongues of Fire is a portrait o

By Southern Playwrights is a rare assemblage of works from the 1980s and 1990s by writers continuing the tradition of Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, and B

This timely collection addresses the neglected state of scholarship on southern women dramatists by bringing together the latest criticism on some of the most i