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The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights

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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.

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Pages
276

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, UK, New York, NY, USA
Series
Cambridge Companions to Literature
Copyright Date
2000

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
822/.91099282
Library of Congress
PR739.F45 C36 2000

Contributors

Editor
Elaine Aston
Editor
Janelle Reinelt

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xx, 276 p. :
Number of pages
276

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL43036M
ISBN 10
0521594227
LCCN
99036626
OCLC/WorldCat
41641348, 247143568, 7334367286
LibraryThing
231833
Storygraph
beb5f74e-41ec-4216-83be-93838379565b
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1017/CCOL0521594227
Goodreads
7548060

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL16968652W
LibraryThing
231833

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