Feminine focus : the new women playwrights / edited by Enoch Brater.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brater, Enoch.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American drama.

American drama--Women authors.

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

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

French drama.

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

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

English drama.

English drama--Women authors.

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

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

Women and literature.

History.

Women in the theater--History--20th century.

Women in the theater.

French drama--Women authors.

Physical Description:

xvi, 283 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

Summary:

This collection of sixteen essays by leading theater critics offers a fresh and exciting look at modern drama as it is being written by women today. Combining a variety of critical approaches, Brater situates the new women playwrights at the center of a continuing debate about what constitutes power, privilege, and current stage practice. His symposium examines the work of Caryl Churchill, Rochelle Owens, Ariane Mnouchkine, Marsha Norman, Simone Benmussa, Tina Howe, Sarah Daniels, Maria Irene Fornes, Pam Gems, and Ntozake Shange, as well as theater collectives of the 1970s and 1980's, to provide a diverse look at the tension between theoretical matters and questions of dramatic style, performance, and enactment. A mixture of historical, thematic, structural, psychoanalytic, and feminist readings, this collection sharpens our definition of what value and vision mean in contemporary theater.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0195057880

OCLC:

18629069