Feminist theatrical revisions of classic works : critical essays /
"This book examines recent adaptations of classic works influenced by feminisms. Essays are arranged according to the period and genre of the source text re-visioned: classical theater and myth (e.g. Metamorphoses), Shakespeare and seventeenth century theater (e.g. King Lear), nineteenth and tw...
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Company,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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 of Phedre, 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! (Phedre) / Johan Callens
- 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
- 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.