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Author:   Sharon Friedman
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780786434251

ISBN 10:   0786434252
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   25 November 2008
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Introduction SHARON FRIEDMAN      I. CLASSICAL THEATER AND MYTH All Is Not Right in the House of Atreus: Feminist Theatrical Renderings of the Oresteia JULIE MALNIG      The Philomela Myth as Postcolonial Feminist Theater: Timberlake Wertenbaker’s The Love of the Nightingale MAYA E. ROTH      Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses: Storytelling Theater as Feminist Process ANDREA J. NOURYEH      The Political Is Personal: Feminism, Democracy and Antigone Project CAROL MARTIN      II. SHAKESPEARE AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURY THEATER Lear’s Daughters and Sons: Twisting the Canonical Landscape LESLEY FERRIS      The Feminist Playwright as Critic: Paula Vogel, Ann-Marie MacDonald, and Djanet Sears Interpret Othello SHARON FRIEDMAN      Transgressive Female Desire and Subversive Critique in the Seventeenth Century Canon: JoAnne Akalaitis’s Staging Phèdre, The Rover, and ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore CHERYL BLACK      Reconfiguring the Text and the Self: The Wooster Group’s To You, the Birdie! (Phèdre) JOHAN CALLENS      III. NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY NARRATIVES AND REFLECTIONS: THE ROMANCE, THE NOVEL, AND THE ESSAY Outside the Law: Feminist Adaptations of The Scarlet Letter LENORA CHAMPAGNE      Expressions of “Lust and Rage”: Shared Experience Theatre’s Adaptation of Jane Eyre KRISTIN CROUCH      A Mystical Place Called Grand Isle: Adapting Kate Chopin’s The Awakening CHIORI MIYAGAWA      SITI Company’s Room: Theatrical Performance and/as Feminist Invitational Rhetoric SANDEE K. MCGLAUN      IV. MODERN DRAMA Deconstructing (A Streetcar Named) Desire: Gender Re-citation in Belle Reprieve DEBORAH R. GEIS      Nora’s Journey Through a Century of Feminisms to the Postmodern Stage of Mabou Mines DollHouse AMY S. GREEN      Bibliography      About the Contributors      Index     

Reviews

a perceptive and broadly conceived overview for those who wish to become acquainted with the kinds of adaptations created by women in theatre over the past thirty years...the dazzling variety of the dramatic texts and productions encompassed by the volume will be a delight to any serious student of drama and theatre --d104 and Presentation, 2009.

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Sharon Friedman is a professor at the Gallatin School, New York University.

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