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By Elaine Aston

ISBN-10: 052180003X

ISBN-13: 9780521800037

ISBN-10: 0521804671

ISBN-13: 9780521804677

Feminist perspectives at the English degree, first released in 2003, is a thrilling and insightful examine on drama from a feminist viewpoint, one who demanding situations an idea of the Nineties as a 'post-feminist' decade and can pay awareness to women's playwriting marginalized by means of a 'renaissance' of indignant younger males. operating via a generational mixture of writers, from Sarah Kane, the iconoclastic 'bad lady' of the degree, to the 'canonical' Caryl Churchill, Elaine Aston charts the numerous political and aesthetic adjustments in women's playwriting on the century's finish. Aston additionally explores writing for the Nineties in theatre via Sarah Daniels, Bryony Lavery, Phyllis Nagy, Winsome Pinnock, Rebecca Prichard, Judy Upton and Timberlake Wertenbaker.

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