Elaine Aston

Feminist Views on the English Stage

Women Playwrights, 1990-2000

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of women playwrights from a feminist perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780521800037
• ISBN-10: 052180003X
• Artikelnr.: 21183578

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.