Making a Spectacle
Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women's Theatre
Will be published approx. on 23. December 1988
Book
Hardback
360 pages
978-0-472-09389-2 (ISBN)
Description
Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women's Theatre is the first wide-ranging collection of scholarly articles to apply feminist perspectives to the work of women writers for the stage. The book breaks new ground in the field of feminist criticism, by confronting the absence or minimization of women theatre artists, discussing the strategies of women writers who are appropriating the stage to assert their own images, analyzing the politics of theatrical reception and production, and deconstructing the ideology of dramatic representations.
Reviews / Votes
"One of the things that attracted me to theatre is that it's a place where people will listen for as long as it takes. In the theatre they will even listen to a woman -- WITHOUT INTERRUPTING HER. The scholars in Making a Spectacle have listened, looked, and responded on multi-levels to the playwright's work and for this, I give them a whole-hearted embrace. Their work expands and adds to the intellectual life and artistic experience of all of us."?--Megan Terry
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Ann Arbor
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 B&W photographs
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-472-09389-2 (9780472093892)
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