The Cambridge companion to modern British women playwrights / edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aston, Elaine, editor.

Reinelt, Janelle G., editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Women authors--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--20th century--History and criticism.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Feminism and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 276 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

A century in view: from suffrage to the 1990s / Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt

Women playwrights of the 1920s and 1930s / Maggie B. Gale

New plays and women's voices in the 1950s / Susan Bennett

Women playwrights and the challenge of feminism in the 1970s / Michelene Wandor

The politics of location / Susan Bassnett

Contemporary Welsh women playwrights / Anna-Marie Taylor

Contemporary Scottish women playwrights / Adrienne Scullion

Women playwrights in Northern Ireland / Mary Trotter

Language and identity in Timberlake Wertenbaker's plays / Susan Carlson

Pam Gems: body politics and biography / Elaine Aston

Caryl Churchill and the politics of style / Janelle Reinelt

Violence, abuse and gender relations in the plays of Sarah Daniels / Gabriele Griffin

Small island people: Black British women playwrights / Meenakshi Ponnuswami

Writing outside the mainstream / Claire MacDonald

Lesbian performance in the transnational arena / Sue-Ellen Case.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

ISBN:

1-139-81576-8

0-511-99897-X