ABSTRACT
Women have long been recognized for their contributions to the Brazilian stage as actors; the list of legendary names is extensive.1 They have played such landmark roles as Alaíde, protagonist of Nelson Rodrigues’s 1943 Vestido de noiva (Bridal Gown), which put theater in step with the modernista movement. But as writers, women came late to the Brazilian stage. Their way was paved by poets and especially by fiction writers. And much of women’s focus, whether writing fiction or drama, has been the quest for identity.
