Performing Women : : Female Characters, Male Playwrights, and the Modern Stage / / Gay Gibson Cima.

Some feminists criticize male playwrights for misrepresenting and thereby victimizing women through patriarchal narratives; other feminists applaud selected male playwrights as creators of "universal" women's roles. In this bold and imaginative book, Gay Gibson Cima delineates previou...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1996
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 11 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Ibsen and the Critical Actor
  • Chapter Two. Strindberg and the Transformational Actor
  • Chapter Three. The Brecht Collective and the Parabolic Actor
  • Chapter Four. Pinter and the Cinematic Actor
  • Chapter Five. Shepard and the Improvisational Actor
  • Chapter Six. Beckett aJnd the No Actor
  • Afterword
  • Index