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Plays by Women Volume editor Michelene Wandor

Plays by Women By Volume editor Michelene Wandor

Plays by Women by Volume editor Michelene Wandor

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Summary

Four female British plays deal with a poet and her mother, a family's breakdown in communication, a woman who literally wrestles with her problems and the interaction of a group of office workers.

Plays by Women Summary

Plays by Women: v. 1: Vinegar Tom, Dusa, FIsh, Stas and VI, Tissue, Aurora Leigh by Volume editor Michelene Wandor

Included in this volume are Caryl Churchill's Vinegar Tom, about witchcraft in the seventeenth century; Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi, an account of the lives of four young women by Pam Gems; Louise Page's Tissue, about breast cancer; and Aurora Leigh, adapted by Michelene Wandor herself from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's verse novel. Each play has an afterword by its author, and the volume opens with an introduction by the editor.

About Volume editor Michelene Wandor

Michelene Wandor is the author of Understudies, published in 1980. She has been Poetry Editor and a regular theatre reviewer for Time Out since 1971 and has also written on theatre for Spare Rib, Plays and Players and The Morning Star. Since 1970 she has been writing poetry and plays of her own - for theatre, radio and television - often in close collaboration with feminist and gay theatre groups, such as Monstrous Regiment. She has also compiled an anthology of British Women's Liberation writings, The Body Politic (1972), edited a collection of feminist plays, Strike While the Iron is Hot (1980) and contributed to a collection of feminist short stories, Tales I Tell My Mother (1978).

Table of Contents

Vinegar Tom; Dusa; FIsh; Stas and VI; Tissue; Aurora Leigh

Additional information

GOR001609646
9780413500205
0413500209
Plays by Women: v. 1: Vinegar Tom, Dusa, FIsh, Stas and VI, Tissue, Aurora Leigh by Volume editor Michelene Wandor
Volume editor Michelene Wandor
Play Anthologies
Used - Very Good
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
1982-05-13
140
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