The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill / edited by:Aston, Elaine (ed.)Diamond, Elin (ed.) Edited By Elaine Aston; Elin Diamond - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. - xvi, 193p.

Includes bibliography and index.

Caryl Churchill's plays are internationally performed, studied and acclaimed by practitioners, theatre scholars, critics and audiences alike. With fierce imagination the plays dramatise the anxieties and terrors of contemporary life. This Companion presents new scholarship on Churchill's extraordinary and ground-breaking work. Chapters explore a cluster of major plays in relation to pressing social topics – ecological crisis, sexual politics, revolution, terror and selfhood – providing close readings of texts in their theatrical, theoretical and historical contexts. These topic-based essays are intercalated with other essays that delve into Churchill's major collaborations, her performance innovations and her influences on a new generation of playwrights. Contributors explore Churchill'...


English.

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Churchill, Caryl, 1938---Works and themes--Criticism and interpretation
Feminist drama--British playwrights--Great Britain--Studies
English drama--History and criticism--Great Britain--20th century
Women and literature--Feminist perspectives--Great Britain--Studies
Drama, modern--Thematic and stylistic analysis--Great Britain--Interpretation

822.914 / CAM-