Women in Dramatic Place and Time : Contemporary Female Characters on Stage

ISBN-13: 9780415067348 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 224 str.

Geraldine Cousin; G. Cousins;Cousin Geraldin

Opis

In this work, Geraldine Cousins presents detailed analyses of a wide range of plays by British women dramatists from the last two decades. The book takes as its central focus women's dramatic attempts to speak out of the ideological spaces in which they have been confined. It reveals the processes through which female characters have found their voices, and tracks their journeys into previously uninhabited territories. The plays considered include: Queen Christina by Pam Gem; My Mother Said I Never Should by Charlotte Keatley; Real Estate by Louise Page; The Grace of Mary Traverse by Timberlake Wertenbaker; Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock; The Striker by Caryl Churchill; and After Easter by Anne Devlin.

Spis treści

PROLOGUE The room and the wilderness: Rutherford and Son and Granite 1 WILDERNESSES RECLAIMED The cave, The tarantella 2 RELATED SPACES, RELATED LIVES 3 TIME-TRAVELLERS AND DISORDERLY WOMEN 4 RETELLINGS 5 QUESTS FOR MAPS 6 CORRESPONDENT WORLDS: Encounters with fairies and angels RETROSPECTIVE

O autorze

Geraldine Cousin is Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Churchill the Playwright and King John (from the ‘Shakespeare in Performance’ series)