Women In Modern Drama

Author : Gail Finney
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781501741890

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Women in Modern Drama by Gail Finney Pdf

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 : Theodora A. Jankowski
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0252062388

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Women in Power in the Early Modern Drama by Theodora A. Jankowski Pdf

Author : Katherine E. Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134802371

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Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s by Katherine E. Kelly Pdf

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 : Swapan Kumar Banerjee
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : English drama
ISBN : 8126905700

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Feminism In Modern English Drama (1892-1914) by Swapan Kumar Banerjee Pdf

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 : CHARLES M. KELLY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0415124948

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Modern Drama by Women 1880s - 1930s by CHARLES M. KELLY Pdf

Author : Gay Gibson Cima
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0801483379

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Performing Women by Gay Gibson Cima Pdf

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 : Katherine H. Burkman,Judith Roof
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838637639

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Staging the Rage by Katherine H. Burkman,Judith Roof Pdf

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 : Alexandra Coller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134780174

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Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy by Alexandra Coller Pdf

Sixteenth-century Italy witnessed the rebirth of comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy in the pastoral mode. Traditionally, we think of comedy and tragedy as remakes? of ancient models, and tragicomedy alone as the invention of the moderns. Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy suggests that all three genres were, in fact, remarkably new, if dramatists’ intriguingly sympathetic portrayals of and sustained investment in women as vibrant and dynamic characters of the early modern stage are taken into account. This study examines the role of rhetoric and gender in early modern Italian drama, in itself and in order to explore its complex interrelationship with the rise of women writers and the role women played in Italian culture and society, while at the same time demonstrating just how closely intertwined history, culture, and dramatic writing are. Author Alexandra Coller focuses on the scripted/erudite plays of the sixteenth and first half of the seventeenth centuries, which, she argues, are indispensable for a balanced view of the history of drama and its place within contemporary literary and women’s studies. As this book reveals, the ascendancy of comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy in the vernacular seems to have been not only inextricably linked to but also dependent on the rise of women as prominent stage characters and, eventually, as authors in their own right.

Author : Lisa M. Anderson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : African Americans in literature
ISBN : 9780252032288

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Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama by Lisa M. Anderson Pdf

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 : Katharine Goodland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351936644

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Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama by Katharine Goodland Pdf

Grieving women in early modern English drama, this study argues, recall not only those of Classical tragedy, but also, and more significantly, the lamenting women of medieval English drama, especially the Virgin Mary. Looking at the plays of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Webster, this book presents a new perspective on early modern drama grounded upon three original interrelated points. First, it explores how the motif of the mourning woman on the early modern stage embodies the cultural trauma of the Reformation in England. Second, the author here brings to light the extent to which the figures of early modern drama recall those of the recent medieval past. Finally, Goodland addresses how these representations embody actual mourning practices that were viewed as increasingly disturbing after the Reformation. Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama synthesizes and is relevant to several areas of recent scholarly interest, including the performance of gender, the history of emotion, studies of death and mourning, and the cultural trauma of the Reformation.

Author : Kim Solga
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230274051

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Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance by Kim Solga Pdf

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.

Author : Mary C. Fuller
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496210296

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Travel and Travail by Mary C. Fuller Pdf

Popular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious, dishonest, and unchaste. As the essays in Travel and Travail reveal, however, early modern women did travel, often quite extensively, with no diminution of their moral fiber. Female travelers were also frequently represented on the English stage and in other creative works, both as a reproach to the ban on female travel and as a reflection of historical women's travel, whether intentional or not. Travel and Travail conclusively refutes the notion of female travel in the early modern era as "an absent presence." The first part of the volume offers analyses of female travelers (often recently widowed or accompanied by their husbands), the practicalities of female travel, and how women were thought to experience foreign places. The second part turns to literature, including discussions of roving women in Shakespeare, Margaret Cavendish, and Thomas Heywood. Whether historical actors or fictional characters, women figured in the wider world of the global Renaissance, not simply in the hearth and home.

Author : June Schlueter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003792145

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Feminist Rereadings of Modern American Drama by June Schlueter Pdf

"New perspectives on the work of five prominent male playwrights in the modern American canon."--Jacket.

Author : Shelley Scott
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781897425558

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Nightwood Theatre by Shelley Scott Pdf

Nightwood Theatre is the longest-running and most influential feminist theatre company in Canada. Since 1979, the company has produced works by Canadian women, providing new opportunities for women theatre artists. It has also been the "home company" for some of the biggest names in Canadian theatre, such as Ann-Marie MacDonald. In Nightwood Theatre, Scott describes the company?s journey toward defining itself as a feminist theatre establishment, highlighting its artistic leadership based on its relevance to diverse communities of women. She also traces Nightwood?s relationship with the media and places the theatre in an international context by comparing its history to that of like companies in the U.K. and the U.S

Author : Maurizio Calbi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134282357

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Approximate Bodies by Maurizio Calbi Pdf

The early modern period was an age of anatomical exploration and revelation, with new discoveries capturing the imagination not only of scientists but also of playwrights and poets. Approximate Bodies examines, in fascinating detail, the changing representation of the body in early modern drama and in the period's anatomical and gynaecological treatises. Maurizio Calbi focuses on the unstable representation of both masculinity and femininity in Renaissance texts such as The Duchess of Malfi, The Changeling and a variety of Shakespeare plays. Drawing on theorists including Foucault, Derrida and Lacan, these close textual readings examine the effects of social, psychic and cultural influences on early modern images of the body. Calbi identifies the ways in which political, social, racial and sexual power structures effect the construction of the body in dramatic and anatomical texts. Calbi's analysis displays how images such as the deformed body of the outsider, the effeminate body of the desiring male and the disfigured body parts of the desiring female indicate an unstable, incomplete conception of the body in the Renaissance. Compelling and impeccably researched, this is a sophisticated account of the fantasies and anxieties that play a role in constructing the early modern body. Approximate Bodies makes a major contribution to the field of early modern studies and to debates around the body.