Contemporary Feminist Theatres: To Each Her OwnContemporary Feminist Theatres is a major evaluation of the forms feminism has taken in the theatre since 1968. Lizbeth Goodman provides a provocative and interdisciplinary study of the development of feminist theatres in Britain. She examines the treatment of key issues such as gender, race, sexuality, language and power in performance. Based on original research and fresh data, Contemporary Feminst Theatres is a fully comprehensive and admirably clear analysis of a flourishing field of practice and inquiry. |
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... playwrights to be evaluated on its own terms. While feminist theories of cultural representation do inform the study of feminist theatre in important ways, they may also overshadow the theatre by imposing values not necessarily shared ...
... playwrights to be evaluated on its own terms. While feminist theories of cultural representation do inform the study of feminist theatre in important ways, they may also overshadow the theatre by imposing values not necessarily shared ...
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... playwrights, practitioners, and critics arecompared by way ofintroductionto the ideaofamultiplicityof feminismsandfeminist theatres.In particular, feminist theatre as termandas genre is considered visąvisthe development of the ...
... playwrights, practitioners, and critics arecompared by way ofintroductionto the ideaofamultiplicityof feminismsandfeminist theatres.In particular, feminist theatre as termandas genre is considered visąvisthe development of the ...
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... playwrights. ThisincludesCaryl Churchill's career development from devisingand collaboration to commissioned work; devised work andtheproblems of defining authorship andownershipof textsforcollectives and cooperativessuch as ...
... playwrights. ThisincludesCaryl Churchill's career development from devisingand collaboration to commissioned work; devised work andtheproblems of defining authorship andownershipof textsforcollectives and cooperativessuch as ...
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... playwrights suchas SarahDaniels. Feministwork for'new audiences' is also considered, including work in Theatre inEducation (TIE), Young People's Theatre (YPT), multilingual theatresandtheatres byandforthedifferently abled.This ...
... playwrights suchas SarahDaniels. Feministwork for'new audiences' is also considered, including work in Theatre inEducation (TIE), Young People's Theatre (YPT), multilingual theatresandtheatres byandforthedifferently abled.This ...
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... playwright' is absolutely meaningless because it implies polemic, andpolemic is about changing thingsin a direct political way.Dramais subversive. Megan Terry: I've noticed, atthese conferences where some men have been speaking out ...
... playwright' is absolutely meaningless because it implies polemic, andpolemic is about changing thingsin a direct political way.Dramais subversive. Megan Terry: I've noticed, atthese conferences where some men have been speaking out ...
Contents
Section 17 | lv |
Section 18 | lvii |
Section 19 | lxiii |
Section 20 | lxxxiii |
Section 21 | xcv |
Section 22 | xcvi |
Section 23 | ci |
Section 24 | cviii |
| xxiv | |
Section 10 | xxxiii |
Section 11 | xliv |
Section 12 | lxi |
Section 13 | lxxix |
Section 14 | lxxxii |
Section 15 | c |
Section 16 | c |
Section 25 | 5 |
Section 26 | 4 |
Section 27 | 8 |
Section 28 | 41 |
Section 29 | 526 |
Section 30 | 357 |
Section 31 | 180 |
Section 32 | 182 |
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