The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Cover......Page 1
The Cambridge companion to modern British women playwrights......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
List of illustrations......Page 10
Notes on contributors......Page 11
Chronology......Page 14
1 A century in view: from suffrage to the 1990s......Page 22
part 1: retrospectives......Page 42
2 Women playwrights of the 1920s and 1930s......Page 44
3 New plays and women’s voices in the 1950s......Page 59
4 Women playwrights and the challenge of feminism in the 1970s......Page 74
part 2: national tensions and intersections......Page 90
5 The politics of location......Page 94
6 Contemporary Welsh women playwrights......Page 103
7 Contemporary Scottish women playwrights......Page 115
8 Women playwrights in Northern Ireland......Page 140
9 Language and identity in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s plays......Page 155
part 3: the question of the canon......Page 172
10 Pam Gems: body politics and biography......Page 178
11 Caryl Churchill and the politics of style......Page 195
12 Violence, abuse and gender relations in the plays of Sarah Daniels......Page 215
part 4: the subject of identity......Page 234
13 Small island people: black British women playwrights......Page 238
14 Writing outside the mainstream......Page 256
15 Lesbian performance in the transnational arena......Page 274