The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights
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- Editors:
- Elaine Aston, Lancaster University
- Janelle Reinelt, University of California, Davis
- Date Published: May 2000
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521595339
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This Companion addresses the work of women playwrights in Britain throughout the twentieth century. Chapters explore the historical and theatrical contexts in which women have written for the theater and examine the work of individual playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, Pam Gems, and Timberlake Wertenbaker. The volume brings together a transatlantic team of feminist theater scholars and practitioners. A chronological section on playwriting from the 1920s to the 1970s is followed by chapters that raise issues of nationality and identity. Later sections question accepted notions of the canon and include chapters on nonmainstream writing, including black and lesbian performance.
Read more- Focus on twentieth century reflects current teaching and research trends in UK and US in courses on women and theatre
- Transatlantic range of contributors is unusual in this field
- The contextual bias of the companion will make it a primary reading text for courses, especially in UK
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"An astute gender-based analysis useful as both companion and primer." Choice
See more reviews"...an excellent companion. Most importantly, it achieves factual and intellectual coverage without enforcing intellectual and creative containment...The collection is also dynamic in that it is authored by writers with a range of styles and approaches who nevertheless always foreground argument, contextual information, and suggestions for further reading beyond the canonical limits if this book's covers. The Companion's range is complemented by the editor's notes that introduce each part, as well as by photographic illustrations and a very welcome index, which facilitates topic searches across the collection's various entries." Modern Drama
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- Date Published: May 2000
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521595339
- length: 298 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
- contains: 9 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Notes on contributors
Chronology
1. A century in view: from suffrage to the 1990s Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt
2. Women playwrights of the 1920s and 1930s Maggie B. Gale
3. New plays and women's voices in the 1950s Susan Bennett
4. Women playwrights and the challenge of feminism in the 1970s Michelene Wandor
5. The politics of location Susan Bassnett
6. Contemporary Welsh women playwrights Anna-Marie Taylor
7. Contemporary Scottish women playwrights Adrienne Scullion
8. Women playwrights in Northern Ireland Mary Trotter
9. Language and identity in Timberlake Wertenbaker's plays Susan Carlson
10. Pam Gems: body politics and biography Elaine Aston
11. Caryl Churchill and the politics of style Janelle Reinelt
12. Violence, abuse and gender relations in the plays by Sarah Daniels Gabriele Griffin
13. Small island people: black British women playwrights Meenakshi Ponnuswami
14. Writing outside the mainstream Claire MacDonald
15. Lesbian performance Sue-Ellen Case.
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