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Rebel Women (Plays and Playwrights)
Stephen Wilmer (Ed.)
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Description for Rebel Women (Plays and Playwrights)
Hardcover.
A collection of essays by many distinguished contributors, focused on the portrayal of rebel women in ancient Greek drama Ancient Greek drama provides the modern stage with a host of powerful female characters who stand in opposition to the patriarchal structures that seek to limit and define them. For contemporary theatre directors their representation serves as a vehicle for examining and illuminating issues of gender, power, family and morality, as germane today as when the plays were first written. Rebel Women brings together essays by leading writers from across different disciplines examining the representation of ancient Greek heroines in their ... Read more
A collection of essays by many distinguished contributors, focused on the portrayal of rebel women in ancient Greek drama Ancient Greek drama provides the modern stage with a host of powerful female characters who stand in opposition to the patriarchal structures that seek to limit and define them. For contemporary theatre directors their representation serves as a vehicle for examining and illuminating issues of gender, power, family and morality, as germane today as when the plays were first written. Rebel Women brings together essays by leading writers from across different disciplines examining the representation of ancient Greek heroines in their ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Methuen Publishing Ltd
Number of pages
290
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780413775504
SKU
V9780413775504
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About Stephen Wilmer (Ed.)
Stephen Wilmer is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and has edited a number of theatre studies books. John Dillon is Regius Professor of Greek in Trinit y College, Dublin and is the author ... Read more
Reviews for Rebel Women (Plays and Playwrights)
'This is a book that will continue to stimulate and instruct for a long time to come.' The Anglo-Hellenic Review (Spring 2007)