An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre by Elaine Aston

An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre by Elaine Aston

An accessible and intelligent introduction to the dynamic and challenging relationship between feminism and theatre. Discusses wide-ranging theoretical topics and provides diverse case-studies. Comprehensive and clear.

'.. this book is brilliant. It is one of a few textbooks that I could read straight through ...' - Veronica Baxter, Zululand Univ

ELAINE ASTON is a senior lecturer 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).

GERALDINE HARRIS is a senior lecturer in Theatre Studies at Lancaster University, UK, where she teaches and researches on gender and identity in performance. She has just finished writing a book entitled Beyond Representation, Aesthetics and Politics in Television Drama for Manchester University Press. She has also published numerous articles and book chapters on the work of female performance practitioners and a monograph Staging Femininities (Manchester University Press, 1999). Since the 1980s she has also been closely engaged with the practice of devising and wth writing texts for performance, both with students and with professional companies such as Insomniac and Third Angel.

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ISBN 13	9780415087698
ISBN 10	0415087694
Title	An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre
Author	Elaine Aston
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	1994-12-15
Number of pages	176
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