Collection of plays about women, most of them written by men. Includes such time honored classics as Media, Lysistrata, and Miss Julie. Because it is a collection by varied authors, there is a range of quality in the plays, though most of them were decent reading. These plays do highlight the role of women in the years before women's lib insisted that women were people. The rules by which these women lived were meant to stifle their native intelligence, curiosity, and adventurous spirit, and most of the women in these plays were rebelling against that. It isn't exactly a feminist collection, but it does highlight the role of women both in life and on the stage. ( )