Feminist theatrical revisions of classic works : critical essays / edited by Sharon Friedman.

• All is not right in the house of Atreus: feminist theatrical renderings of the Oresteia / Julie Malnig -- The Philomela myth as postcolonial feminist theater: Timberlake Wertenbaker's The love of the nightingale / Maya E. Roth -- Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses: storytelling theater as feminist process / Andrea J. Nouryeh -- The political is personal: feminism, democracy and Antigone Project / Carol Martin -- Lear's daughters and sons: twisting the canonical landscape / Lesley Ferris -- The feminist playwright as critic: Paula Vogel, Ann-Marie MacDonald, and Djanet Sears interpret Othello / Sharon Friedman -- Transgressive female desire and subversive critique in the seventeenth century canon: JoAnne Akalaitis's staging of Phedre, The rover, and 'Tis pity she's a whore / Cheryl Black -- Reconfiguring the text and the self: the Wooster Group's To you, the birdie! (Phedre) / Johan Callens -- Outside the law: feminist adaptations of The scarlet letter / Lenora Champagne -- Expressions of "lust and rage": shared experience theatre's adaptation of Jane Eyre / Kristin Crouch -- A mystical place called Grand Isle: adapting Kate Chopin's The awakening / Chiori Miyagawa -- SITI Company's Room: theatrical performance and/as feminist invitational rhetoric / Sandee K. McGlaun -- Deconstructing (A streetcar named) Desire: gender re-citation in Belle reprieve / Deborah R. Geis -- Nora's journey through a century of feminisms to the postmodern stage of Mabou Mines DollHouse / Amy S. Green.

• "This book examines recent adaptations of classic works influenced by feminisms. Essays are arranged according to the period and genre of the source text re-visioned: classical theater and myth (e.g. Metamorphoses), Shakespeare and seventeenth century theater (e.g. King Lear), nineteenth and twentieth century narratives and reflections (e.g. Jane Eyre), and modern drama (e.g. A Streetcar Named Desire)"--Provided by publisher. 

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English drama  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

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