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Audrey Wood and the Playwrights

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  1. Milly S. Barranger

    1. New York City, USA

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History (PSTPH)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

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      Pages 1-3

  3. Genesis of an Agent 1905–1940

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Stagestruck

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      Pages 7-10

    3. Starting Out

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      Pages 11-20

    4. A Room of Their Own

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      Pages 21-31

  4. The Fearful Path 1941–1970

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. The Bitch Goddess

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      Pages 35-51

    3. Dancing on Eggs

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      Pages 53-66

    4. Personal Monsters

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      Pages 67-83

    5. Darkness in the Heartland

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      Pages 85-98

    6. Iron Butterflies

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      Pages 99-113

    7. An Accidental Career

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      Pages 115-128

    8. Irish Fictions

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      Pages 129-140

  5. Entrances and Exits 1971–1986

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. Out-of-the-Ordinary

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      Pages 143-155

    3. Guardian Angel

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      Pages 157-172

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 173-220
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About this book

From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwrights in the Broadway theatre of her day. Her quiet determination and burning enthusiasm brought America's finest mid-century playwrights to prominence and altered stage history.

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  • New York City, USA

    Milly S. Barranger

About the author

Milly S. Barranger is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. She is the author of several studies about twentieth-century women and modern American theatre, including Margaret Webster: A Life in the Theatre; Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theatre, and Film in the McCarthy Era; A Gambler's Instinct: The Story of Broadway Producer Cheryl Crawford ; and Audrey Wood and the Playwrights . A former producing director of PlayMakers Repertory Company, she is coeditor of Notable Women in the American Theatre: A Biographical Dictionary . In addition to the College of Fellows of the American Theatre, she has led both the National Theatre Conference and the American Theatre Association.

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