Michelene Wandor

Post-war British Drama: Looking Back in Gender (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134773114
• Artikelnr.: 47890304

Autorenporträt

Michelene Wandor

Inhaltsangabe

PART I 1 The imperative of gender 2 The imperative of context: family and gender PART II 3 The 1950s 4 The 1960s 5 The Lady Macbeth syndrome ± The 1950s and 1960s: conclusions 6 The Royal Smut-Hound by Kenneth Tynan PART III 7 New contexts
8 A theatrical legacy
PART IV 9 The 1970s
10 The 1970s: conclusions
PART V 11 The 1980s
12 The 1980s : conclusions
PART VI 13 the 1990s
14 The 1990s: conclusions
Part VII 15 Turning the tables
16 Coda
Epilogue