Women In Modern Drama
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Author | : Gail Finney |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2019-06-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1501741896 |
An abundance of rich and memorable female roles is one of the most striking features of turn-of-the-century European drama. Gail Finney traces the source of this phenomenon to large-scale upheavals in prevailing contemporary attitudes toward women. She cites two major developments in particular: the culmination in the years 1880–1920 of the first feminist movement; and Freud's formulation of his theories of sexuality, which emphasize differences between the sexes. Taking into account these strong, sometimes conflicting intellectual currents, Women in Modern Drama explores the dynamics of gender identity and family relationships in major plays by European make dramatists, including Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, Wilde, Schnitzler, Synge, Hofmannsthal, Wedekind, and Hauptmann.
Author | : Katherine E. Kelly |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1134802374 |
Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement known as Modern Drama. It contains twelve plays by women from the Americas, Europe and Asia, spanning a national and stylistic range from Swedish realism to Russian symbolism. Six of these plays are appearing in their first English-language translation. Playwrights include: * Anne-Charlotte Leffler Edgren (Sweden) * Amelai Pincherle Rosselli (Italy) * Elsa Berstein (Germany) * Elizabeth Robins (Britain) * Marie Leneru (France) * Alfonsina Storni (Argentina) * Hella Wuolijoki (Finland) * Hasegawa Shigure (Japan) * Rachilde (France) * Zinaida Gippius (Russia) * Djuna Barnes (USA) * Marita Bonner (USA) This groundbreaking anthology explodes the traditional canon. In these plays, the New Woman represents herself and her crises in all of the styles and genres available to the modern dramatist. Unprecedented in diversity and scope, it is a collection which no scholar, student or lover of modern drama can afford to miss.
Author | : Theodora A. Jankowski |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780252062384 |
Author | : CHARLES M. KELLY |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780415124942 |
Author | : Katherine H. Burkman |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838637630 |
This study is divided into four sections, whose general topics trace various manifestations of misogyny in nineteenthand twentieth-century drama. Recent attempts to dismantle and expose relations between gender and spectacle receive attention in a volume that suggests exciting possibilities for a revision of theater.
Author | : Gay Gibson Cima |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780801483370 |
Argues that critics have misunderstood the relationship between male playwrights and women's roles because they have neglected the interpretive skills of the actresses playing those roles. Analyzes hypothetical as well as historical performances to demonstrate how women have invented acting styles to portray women created by playwrights from Ibsen to Beckett. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Swapan Kumar Banerjee |
Publisher | : Atlantic Publishers & Dist |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : 9788126905706 |
Feminism In Modern English Drama Explores The Emergence Of The New Woman In The Plays Of Bernard Shaw, Galsworthy And Granville Barker And How Their Dominating Role Revolutionized The Modern Drama. The Emphasis Shifted From The Male Protagonist To The Unwomanly Woman Who Is Shown More As A Product Of Social, Economic And Political Interactions Than Individual Creation.The Focus Is On The Early And Middle Plays Of Bernard Shaw And The Influence Of Ibsen S Plays Has Been Given Their Rightful Place. Most Of Shaw S Major Plays From Widowers Houses To Pygmalion, Come Under The Purview Of The Book, While The Plays Of Contemporaries Like Pinero, Jones And Oscar Wilde Have Been Discussed To Highlight The Contrast.More Interesting Are The Unknown Assertive Heroines Of Galsworthy S Middle And Late Plays From The Eldest Son And The Fugitive To The Skin Game. His Women Characters Remain In Oblivion Because Hardly Any Scholar Has Bothered To Study Them. Though Granville Barker Is Well-Known As A Critic And Director Of Shakespeare S Plays, His Own Plays With The New Woman As Heroine Still Remain Little Known In The Academic Circle. In The Conclusion The Bearing Of This Early Feminism Is Shown On The Feminist Playwrights Like Caryl Churchill, Pam Gems Et Al. Of The 1980S.It Is Hoped That The Present Book Will Prove An Asset To Those Who Have Keen Interest In English Drama. In Addition, The Students, Researchers And Teachers Of English Literature Will Find It An Ideal Reference Book.
Author | : Lisa M. Anderson |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : African Americans in literature |
ISBN | : 0252032284 |
In tracing black feminism in contemporary drama by black women playwrights, Lisa M. Anderson reviews the history of black feminism through analysis of plays by Pearl Cleage, Glenda Dickerson, Breena Clarke, Kia Corthron, Suzan-Lori Parks, Sharon Bridgforth, and Shirlene Holmes.Black Feminism in Contemporary Dramarepresents a cross section of women who have diverse writing and performance styles and generational differences that highlight the artistic and political breadth of black feminist theater. Anderson closely investigates each play's construction and the context of its production, including how the play critiques, shifts, or alters dominant culture stereotypes; how it positions goals of the "community"; and how it engages with the concept of art's function. She not only discusses what shapes the black feminism of these writers but also points out how the meaning of the term black feminism shifts among them.
Author | : Carol P. Marsh-Lockett |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : African American women |
ISBN | : 9780815327462 |
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Kim Solga |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2009-09-29 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0230274056 |
Examining some of the most iconic texts in English theatre history, including Titus Andronicus and The Changeling, this book, now in paperback with a new Preface, reveals the pernicious erasure of rape and violence against women in the early modern era and the politics and ethics of rehearsing these negotiations on the 20th and 21st century stages.