Sharon Friedman

Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works

Critical Essays

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Produktbeschreibung

Re-visioning the classics, often in a subversive mode, has evolved into its own theatrical genre in recent years, and many of these productions have been informed by feminist theory and practice. This book examines recent adaptations of classic texts (produced since 1980) influenced by a range of feminisms, and illustrates the significance of historical moment, cultural ideology, dramaturgical practice, and theatrical venue for shaping an adaptation. Essays are arranged according to the period and genre of the source text re-visioned: classical theater and myth (e.g. Antigone, Metamorphoses), Shakespeare and seventeenth-century theater (e.g. King Lear, The Rover), nineteenth and twentieth century narratives and reflections (e.g. The Scarlet Letter, Jane Eyre, A Room of One's Own), and modern drama (e.g. A Doll House, A Streetcar Named Desire).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9780786434251
• ISBN-10: 0786434252
• Artikelnr.: 23899221

Autorenporträt

Sharon Friedman is a professor at the Gallatin School, New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Introduction
SHARON FRIEDMAN     
I. CLASSICAL THEATER AND MYTH
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     
II. SHAKESPEARE AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURY THEATER
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
Phèdre, 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! (Phèdre)
JOHAN CALLENS     
III. NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY NARRATIVES AND REFLECTIONS: THE
ROMANCE, THE NOVEL, AND THE ESSAY
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     
IV. MODERN DRAMA
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     
Bibliography     
About the Contributors     
Index