Feminist Views on the English Stage

Women Playwrights, 1990-2000

AvElaine Aston

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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Beskrivning

Feminist Views on the English Stage, first published in 2003, is an exciting and insightful study on drama from a feminist perspective, one that challenges an idea of the 1990s as a 'post-feminist' decade and pays attention to women's playwriting marginalized by a 'renaissance' of angry young men. Working through a generational mix of writers, from Sarah Kane, the iconoclastic 'bad girl' of the stage, to the 'canonical' Caryl Churchill, Elaine Aston charts the significant political and aesthetic changes in women's playwriting at the century's end. Aston also explores writing for the 1990s in theatre by Sarah Daniels, Bryony Lavery, Phyllis Nagy, Winsome Pinnock, Rebecca Prichard, Judy Upton and Timberlake Wertenbaker.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2003-11-24
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
Antal sidor:250
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521800037

Utforska kategorier

Teater inom Kultur
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Elaine Aston is Professor of Contemporary Performance, Lancaster University, and is co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights (0521 594227).

Recensioner i media

Review of the hardback: '… played a valuable part in revaluing what 'Britain' might mean today.' Plays International

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements; 1. A feminist view on the 1990s; 2. Telling feminist tales: Caryl Churchill; 3. Saying no to daddy: child sexual abuse, the 'Big Hysteria'; 4. Girl power, the new feminism?; 5. The 'bad girl of our stage?': Sarah Kane; 6. Performing identities; 7. Feminist connections to a multicultural 'scene'; 8. Feminism past, and future?: Timberlake Wertenbaker; 9. Tales for the twenty-first century: final reflections; Bibliography; Index.