| Post-war British Drama: Looking Back in Gender Revised Edition Contributor(s): Wandor, Michelene (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415138558 ISBN-13: 9780415138550 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2001 Annotation: Michelene Wandor, a respected commentator on sexual politics in the theater, looks again at the best-known British plays of the post-war period. Juxtaposing the period before 1968 when statutory censorship still existed with the years following, Wandor scrutinizes a careful selection of plays, many of which are firmly in place as part of our contemporary canon, through the lenses of World War II, the testing of gender roles, the development of the welfare state, and finally, identity politics. During this period, playwrights and theatergoers transformed the theater into a forum where they could explore rapidly changing interpersonal relationships. These changes led Wandor to some starling conclusions about the different gender focus of male and female playwrights. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Drama - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 822.914 |
| LCCN: 00069925 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.72" W x 8.82" (1.00 lbs) 282 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this extensively revised and updated edition of her classic work, Look Back in Gender, Michelene Wandor confirms the symbiotic relationship between drama and gender in a provocative look at key, representative British plays from the last fifty years. Repositioning the text at the heart of hteatre studies, Wandor surveys plays by Ayckbourn, Beckett, Churchill, Daniels, Friel, Hare, Kane, Osborne, Pinter, Ravenhill, Wertenbaker, Wesker and others. Her nuanced argument, central to any analysis of contemporary drama, discusses: *the imperative of gender in the playwright's imagination *the function of gender as a major determinant of the text's structural and narrative drives *the impact of socialism and feminism on post-war British drama, and the relevance of feminist dynamics in drama *differences in the representation of the fmaily, sexuality and the mother, before and after 1968 *the impact of the slogan that the 'personal is political' on contemporary form and content. |