Feminist theatrical revisions of classic works : critical essays / edited by Sharon Friedman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Friedman, Sharon, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism and theater.

Feminist theater.

English drama--History and criticism.

English drama.

American drama--History and criticism.

American drama.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 290 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2009]

Summary:

"This book examines recent adaptations of classic works influenced by feminisms. Essays are arranged according to the period and genre of the source text re-visioned: classical theater and myth (e.g. Metamorphoses), Shakespeare and seventeenth century theater (e.g. King Lear), nineteenth and twentieth century narratives and reflections (e.g. Jane Eyre), and modern drama (e.g. A Streetcar Named Desire)"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

All is not right in the house of Atreus: feminist theatrical renderings of the Oresteia / Julie Malnig

The Philomela myth as postcolonial feminist theater: Timberlake Wertenbaker's The love of the nightingale / Maya E. Roth

Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses: storytelling theater as feminist process / Andrea J. Nouryeh

The political is personal: feminism, democracy and Antigone Project / Carol Martin

Lear's daughters and sons: twisting the canonical landscape / Lesley Ferris

The feminist playwright as critic: Paula Vogel, Ann-Marie MacDonald, and Djanet Sears interpret Othello / Sharon Friedman

Transgressive female desire and subversive critique in the seventeenth century canon: JoAnne Akalaitis's staging of Phedre, The rover, and 'Tis pity she's a whore / Cheryl Black

Reconfiguring the text and the self: the Wooster Group's To you, the birdie! (Phedre) / Johan Callens

Outside the law: feminist adaptations of The scarlet letter / Lenora Champagne

Expressions of "lust and rage": shared experience theatre's adaptation of Jane Eyre / Kristin Crouch

A mystical place called Grand Isle: adapting Kate Chopin's The awakening / Chiori Miyagawa

SITI Company's Room: theatrical performance and/as feminist invitational rhetoric / Sandee K. McGlaun

Deconstructing (A streetcar named) Desire: gender re-citation in Belle reprieve / Deborah R. Geis

Nora's journey through a century of feminisms to the postmodern stage of Mabou Mines DollHouse / Amy S. Green.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-278) and index.

ISBN:

9780786434251

0786434252

OCLC:

231671205