Feminism and Theatre

ISBN-13: 9780230521186 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 176 str.

S Case

Opis

This classic study is both an introduction to, and an overview of, the relationship between feminism and theatre. The reissued edition features a new Foreword by Elaine Aston who examines the context in which Case's book was written, the influence it has had, subsequent developments in the field and the continued importance of the work.

Spis treści

Preface to the Reissued Edition; E.Aston.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Traditional History: A Feminist Deconstruction.- Women Pioneers.- Personal Theatre.- Radical Feminism and Theatre.- Materialist Feminism and Theatre.- Women of Colour and Theatre.- Towards a New Poetics.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

SUE-ELLEN CASE is Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in Theater, UCLA, USA.

ELAINE ASTON is Professor of Contemporary Performance at Lancaster University, UK where she teaches and researches feminist theatre, theory and performance, a field in which she is widely published. Her authored studies include An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre (1994); Caryl Churchill (1997/ 2001); Feminist Theatre Practice (1999) and Feminist Views on the English Stage (2003). She has co-edited four volumes of plays by women and, with Janelle Reinelt, co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights (2000).