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Essays and scripts on how mothers are portrayed in the theatre : a neglected frontier of feminist scholarship /
This collection examines the nexus of mothering, feminism, and theatre. The work examines the portrayals of mothers in literature and on the performance stage, and makes a contribution to studies in dramatic literature, women?s studies, feminist theory, and theatre history.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lewiston, N.Y. :
Edwin Mellen Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ESSAYS AND SCRIPTS ON HOW MOTHERS ARE PORTRAYED IN THE THEATRE: A Neglected Frontier of Feminist Scholarship; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Beth Osnes and Jennifer Popple; Hispanic Mothers on Stage: Women Playwrights Undermining Masculinist Values; Monstrous Girls and Their Monstrous Mothers; Italian Mammas and Suffering Madonnas: The Strategic Deployment of Maternal Stereotypes in the Theatre of Franca Rame; Motherhood Displaced: Rachel Crothers' The Three of Us and A Man's World.
- The Abject of My Affection: The Erotics of Stepmotherhood in Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love and the Wooster Group's To You, The Birdie (Phedre)""She watches us watching her"": The Theatre of Maternity and the Performance of Maternal Failure in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night; Not So Sainted: Mothers on the Contemporary Irish Stage; What Kind of Mother Are You? Catholic Mothers in Contemporary American Drama; Julie and Manta Rose: The Musical Theatre Mother; The Mother Load: A One-woman Theatrical Performance; scenes from afterbirth: A One-woman Poetry Slam/ HipHop Performance.