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Title: Nation, Community, Self
Condition: New
EAN: 9788869771347
ISBN: 9788869771347
Publisher: Mimesis International
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 31/10/2018
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 140mm
Contributor: Gioia Angeletti (Edited by)
Author: Gioia Angeletti
Language: English
Subtitle: Female Voices in Scottish Theatre from the Seventies to the Present
ISBN-10: 8869771342
Country/Region of Manufacture: IT
Book Series: Literature
Genre: Literary Criticism
Description: From the late 1960s until the present day, a significant number of women playwrights have emerged in Scottish theatre who have made a pioneering contribution to dramatic innovation and experimentation. Despite the critical reassessment of some of these authors in the last twenty years, their invaluable achievement in playwriting, within and outside Scotland, still deserves more thorough investigations and fuller acknowledgement. This work explores what is still uncharted territory by examining a selection of representative texts by Ann Marie di Mambro, Marcella Evaristi, Sue Glover, Jackie Kay, Liz Lochhead, Sharman Macdonald, and Joan Ure. The three macro-thematic areas of the book – the rewriting of the Shakespearean canon; the representation of female communities and minorities; and the conflicts between the self and society – find significant and paradigmatic expression in their dramas. All seven writers examined in this book have explored new theatrical methods, introduced aesthetic innovations and opened new perspectives to engage with the complexities of national, community and individual identities. This study will surely contribute to wider recognition of their achievement, so that their work can never again be described as “uncharted territory”.
Release Year: 2018

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