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War Plays by Women

An International Anthology

Agnès Cardinal author Elaine Turner author Claire M Tylee author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:2nd Sep '99

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This anthology consists of ten plays from countries involved in the First World War, including plays from Germany and France never before available in translation.
Representing a range of dramatic forms, from radio play to street-epic, from comic sketch to musical, this anthology includes plays from: Gertrude Stein, Muriel Box, Marion Wentworth Craig, Dorothy Hewett, Berta Lask, Marie Leneru, Wendy Lill, Alice Dunbar Nelson, and Christina Reid. Highly successful in their day, these plays demonstrate how women have attempted to use theatre to achieve social change. The collection explores the historical development of theatrical conventions and genres and the historical context of social and gender issues.

'Tyler, with Turner and Cardinal, has admirably addressed the issue of war plays by women in their anthology.' - Women: A Cultural Review

'detailed and fascinating...gives valuable additional context to the plays themselves'-Times Higher Education Supplement

'The contexts and commentaries which Tylee, Turner and Cardinal provide situate these forgotten dramatic texts within radical histories of the theatre and radical histories of women.' - Mary Joannou, Literature and History

ISBN: 9780415222976

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 440g

240 pages