| Description |
1 online resource (v, 330 pages |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Collection consists of two parts: contributions to the discourses of performance scholarship, gender/feminist scholarship, and mother scholarship; and scripts that portray the image of mother and mother perspectives on the stage |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Mothers in literature.
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Motherhood in literature.
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Feminism and literature.
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Women and literature.
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Mothers -- Drama
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Motherhood -- Drama
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Drama
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Drama -- Women authors
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Feminism and literature
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Motherhood
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Motherhood in literature
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Mothers
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Mothers in literature
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Women and literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Drama
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Andes, Anna
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Osnes, Beth
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| ISBN |
0773430210 |
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9780773430211 |
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