Women in Dramatic Place and Time: Contemporary Female Characters on Stage

by Cousin,Geraldine

• ISBN13: 9780415067348
• ISBN10: 0415067340
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-10-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

InWomen in Dramatic Place and TimeGeraldine Cousins presents detailed analyses of a wide range of plays by British women dramatists from the 1980s and '90s. She focuses on women's dramatic efforts to "speak out" of the ideological spaces in which they have been positioned. She attends to the processes through which female characters have found their voices, and tracks their journeys into previously uninhabited territories. The plays she considers include: Pam Gem'sQueen Christina, Charlotte Keatley'sMy Mother Said I Never Should, Louise Page'sReal Estate, Timberlake Wertenbaker'sThe Grace of Mary Traverse, Winsome Pinnock'sLeave Taking, Caryl Churchill'sThe Skrikerand Anne Devlin'sAfter Easter.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Ley Lines
Prologue: The room and the wilderness: Rutherford and Son and Granite	p. 1
Wildernesses Reclaimed	p. 15
Related Spaces, Related Lives	p. 31
Time-Travellers and Disorderly Women	p. 67
Retellings	p. 98
Quests for Maps	p. 139
Correspondent Worlds: Encounters with fairies and angels	p. 177
Retrospective	p. 201
End Lines	p. 205
Bibliography	p. 206
Index	p. 209
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