The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights by Elaine Aston

The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights by Elaine Aston

This Companion, first published in 2000, addresses the work of women playwrights in Britain throughout the twentieth century. The chapters explore the historical and theatrical contexts in which women have written for the theatre and examine the work of individual playwrights. A chronological section on playwriting from the 1920s to the 1970s is followed by chapters which raise issues of nationality and identity. Later sections question accepted notions of the canon and include chapters on non-mainstream writing, including black and lesbian performance. Each section is introduced by the editors, who provide a narrative overview of a century of women's drama and a thorough chronology of playwriting, set in political context. The collection includes essays on the individual writers Caryl Churchill, Sarah Daniels, Pam Gems and Timberlake Wertenbaker as well as extensive documentation of contemporary playwriting in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, including figures such as Liz Lochhead and Anne Devlin.

'The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights is an excellent companionThe Companion provides detailed and extensive information that is scrupulously well researched and well presented. It thus makes an indispensable, timely, and provocative resource.' Modern Drama

Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick, Janelle Reinelt She is a past editor of the Theatre Journal and was President of the International Federation for Theatre Research from 2004 to 2007. Following Brecht: British Epic Theater (2004), Critical Theory and Performance (with Joseph Roach, 2007), The Performance of Power (with Sue-Ellen Case, 1991), and The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary British Women Playwrights (with Elaine Aston, Cambridge, 2000) are only a few of her publications. She co-edits the Studies in International Performance series with Brian Singleton.

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ISBN 13	9780521595339
ISBN 10	0521595339
Title	The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights
Author	Elaine Aston
Series	Cambridge Companions To Literature
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2000-05-25
Number of pages	298
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