British and Irish women dramatists since 1958 : a critical handbook
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British and Irish women dramatists since 1958 : a critical handbook
（Gender in writing）
Open University Press, 1993
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-177) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a critical reference guide to the important contribution made by women-writers to the renaissance of British drama since the late 1950s. The coverage ranges from collective work, women's companies and cabaret through to traditional single author plays. The book chronicles low-budget, short-running fringe shows as well as London productions of "big name" authors. It explores writing by lesbians and by black women, and examines in detail women's theatre in Wales, Scotland and Ireland (as well as England). It draws on both theoretical issues in feminist criticism, and political developments in the women's movement.
Table of Contents
- Early stages - 1958-68
- claiming a space - 1969-78
- waving not drowning - the mainstream, 1979-88
- Sister George is dead - the making of modern lesbian theatre
- black women dramatists in Britain
- on the margins - Welsh women dramatists
- Irish women playwrights
- transformations and transgressions - women's discourse on the Scottish stage
- an alphabet of apocrypha - 1979-88.
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