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Essays and Scripts on How Mothers Are Portrayed in the Theater [electronic resource] : A Neglected Frontier of Feminist Scholarship
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Osnes, Beth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- Drama--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Motherhood in literature.
- Mothers in literature.
- Drama.
- Feminism and literature.
- Women and literature.
- Mothers.
- Motherhood.
- Local Subjects:
- Drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- Drama--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Motherhood in literature.
- Mothers in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection examines the nexus of mothering, feminism, and theatre. The work examines the portrayals of mothers in literature and on the performance stage, and makes a contribution to studies in dramatic literature, women's studies, feminist theory, and theatre history.
- Contents:
- ESSAYS AND SCRIPTS ON HOW MOTHERS ARE PORTRAYED IN THE THEATRE: A Neglected Frontier of Feminist Scholarship; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Beth Osnes and Jennifer Popple; Hispanic Mothers on Stage: Women Playwrights Undermining Masculinist Values; Monstrous Girls and Their Monstrous Mothers; Italian Mammas and Suffering Madonnas: The Strategic Deployment of Maternal Stereotypes in theTheatre of Franca Rame; Motherhood Displaced: Rachel Crothers' The Three of Us and A Man's World
- The Abject of My Affection: The Erotics of Stepmotherhood in Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love and the Wooster Group's To You, The Birdie (Phedre)""She watches us watching her"": The Theatre of Maternity and the Performance of Maternal Failure in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night; Not So Sainted: Mothers on the Contemporary Irish Stage; What Kind of Mother Are You? Catholic Mothers in Contemporary American Drama; Julie and Manta Rose: The Musical Theatre Mother; The Mother Load: A One-woman Theatrical Performance; scenes from afterbirth: A One-woman Poetry Slam/ HipHop Performance
- Skins: An Ensemble Dance Theatre PerformanceAll Clytemnestra on the Western Front: A Techno Feminist One-woman Performance and Reconstruction of the Iliad
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7734-3021-0
- OCLC:
- 818851287
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