These plays all include roles for at least 2 women. Many of them are interesting and well written. Still, the book brought a couple of questions to the forefront for me: Why is it that when men write women, they always seem to talk about men? And do we really live in a world where there are no women age 40 to 60? Most of the women in these plays were young - mid-20s to mid-30s. Those that weren't young were old - over 65. The occasional mother of one of the younger women would appear, but always as a woman who would have had to have given birth in her 40s, or as a ghost that is also mid-20s to mid-30s, because mother is dead, leaving grandmother to rule the older female role. It is interesting that even women seem unable to write middle aged women into their plays. Overall, that lost the book an entire star. ( )