Rachel Crothers: Sources and Further Reading
Sources
Barnes, Djuna. “The Tireless Rachel Crothers.” Theatre Guild Magazine, May 1931, 17–18.
Crothers, Rachel. A Man’s World; a Play in Four Acts. Boston: R.G. Badger, 1915. http://archive.org/details/mansworldplayinf00crotuoft.
Crothers, Rachel. “The Construction of a Play.” In The Art of Playwriting: Lectures Delivered at the University of Pennsylvania on the Mask and Wig Foundation. Philidelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1928. http://archive.org/details/artofplaywriting00unse.
Gottlieb, Lois C. Rachel Crothers. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1979. http://archive.org/details/rachelcrothers0332gott.
Look What SHE Did! “ALICE TUAN ON RACHEL CROTHERS,” 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH_soWRhXr8.
Shafer, Yvonne. American Women Playwrights, 1900-1950. New York: Peter Lang, 1995.
SJ Clarke Publishing Company. The Biographical Record of McLean County, Illinois. Chicago: S.J. Clarke, 1899.
Theatre Three Tx. “Susan and God - Who Was Rachel Crothers?” 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9whdjtDQLY.
Further Reading
Read or listen Rachel Crothers's plays via Internet Archive:
The Rector (1905) - Text version
A Man's World (1910) - Text version
A Man's World (1910) - Audio recording
He and She (1911) - Audio recording
Ourselves (1913) - Text version
The Best Plays of 1928-29 (1969) - Includes text version of Let Us Be Gay (1929)
When Ladies Meet (1932) - Text version
Susan and God (1937) - Text version
View vintage playbills for Crothers's plays:
Watch the film Wine of Youth (1924), based on Crothers's play Mary the Third (1923)