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Caryl Churchill's Top Girls (Modern Theatre Guides)
Alicia Tycer
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Description for Caryl Churchill's Top Girls (Modern Theatre Guides)
Paperback. Series: Modern Theatre Guides. 144 pages. Provides a critical introduction to Caryl Churchill's play "Top Girls", giving students an overview of the background and context for the play; detailed analysis of the its structure, style and characters; a practical analysis of key production issues and choices; and, an overview of the performance history focusing on key productions. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight: 166.
Caryl Churchill is widely considered to be one of the most innovative playwrights to haveemerged in post-war British theatre. Identified as a socialist feminist writer, she is one of the few British women playwrights to have been incorporated into the dramatic canon. Top Girls is one of Churchill's most well known and often studied works, using an all female cast to critique bourgeois feminism during the Thatcher era.
Caryl Churchill is widely considered to be one of the most innovative playwrights to haveemerged in post-war British theatre. Identified as a socialist feminist writer, she is one of the few British women playwrights to have been incorporated into the dramatic canon. Top Girls is one of Churchill's most well known and often studied works, using an all female cast to critique bourgeois feminism during the Thatcher era.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780826495563
SKU
V9780826495563
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About Alicia Tycer
Alicia Tycer is teaching at the University of California, Irvine. She is currently completing her PhD on Contemporary Women Playwrights at the Royal Court Theatre from 1994-2000.
Reviews for Caryl Churchill's Top Girls (Modern Theatre Guides)
"A comprehensive and insightful approach...Tycer's commentary and analysis; reception and production histories, and practical ideas for understanding the play combine to persuade and to explicate Top Girls as 'still without significant equal in the feminist or mainstream canons'" - Professor Elaine Aston, Lancaster University, UK Briefly reviewed in the Year's work in English Studies journal, vol 89, No. 1 ‘The book provides intelligent readings of key scenes from the play and useful cultural and political background, as well as the changing critical views that this landmark play has elicited during a period of over twenty years'