Frances Babbage

Re-Visioning Myth CB

Modern and Contemporary Drama by Women

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first in-depth assessment of 're-vision' as a phenomenon in women's drama, examining the diverse ways in which classical myth narratives have been reworked by women playwrights for the European stage. This study explores the ideological and aesthetic potential of such practice and silmultaneously exposes the tensions inherent in attempts to challenge narratives that have fundamentally shaped western thought. From tracing the persistence of classical myths in contemporary culture and the significance of this in shaping gendered identities and opportunities, through to analysis of individual plays and productions, Babbage reveals how myths have served in the theatre as 'pretexts' for ideological debate; enabling exploration of the fragile borders between mythic and the everyday and how revision has been regarded, not unproblematically, as a route towards restructuring the self. This makes compelling reading for anyone interested in women's writing for the theatre or wider practices of adaptation in literature and performance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lund University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780719067525
• ISBN-10: 0719067529
• Artikelnr.: 33615617

Autorenporträt

Frances Babbage is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of Sheffield.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The lie of the land Theorising myth Re-visioning myth
Staging myth: Hella Haasse's A Thread in the Dark 2. Political acts
Furiously funny: The Same Old Story and Medea, by Franca Rame and Dario Fo
'And she stopped the world': Sarah Daniels' Neaptide 3. Out of character
Nothing sacred: Maureen Duffy's Rites 'I don't know what got into me':
Caryl Churchill's and David Lan's A Mouthful of Birds Making silence speak:
Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Love of the Nightingale: 4. Stages of
subjectivity The voices within: Serena Sartori, Renata Coluccini and
Demeter Beneath the Sand Hélène Cixous and the scene of the unconscious:
The Name of Oedipus: Song of the Forbidden Body The scene of history:
Cixous's The Perjured City, or the Awakening of the Furies 5. New
directions Shock treatment: Sarah Kane and Phaedra's Love 'I've got the
feeling we'll be eternal': Hrafnhildur Hagalín's Easy Now, Electra In
pieces: Gilla Cremer's m.e.d.e.a Bibliography