TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aston, Elaine, ed.
AU  - Reinelt, Janelle, ed.
TI  - The Cambridge companion to modern British women playwrights  
T2  - Cambridge Companion to Literature
SN  - 0521595339
U1  - 822.91099282 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Women playwrights- English iterature
KW  - English Drama- History and criticism
KW  - English drama
KW  - English drama--Women authors
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Feminism and literature
KW  - Women dramatists, English
KW  - English literature--Women authors
N2  - This Companion, first published in 2000, addresses the work of women playwrights in Britain throughout the twentieth century. The chapters explore the historical and theatrical contexts in which women have written for the theatre and examine the work of individual playwrights. A chronological section on playwriting from the 1920s to the 1970s is followed by chapters which raise issues of nationality and identity. Later sections question accepted notions of the canon and include chapters on non-mainstream writing, including black and lesbian performance. Each section is introduced by the editors, who provide a narrative overview of a century of women's drama and a thorough chronology of playwriting, set in political context. The collection includes essays on the individual writers Caryl Churchill, Sarah Daniels, Pam Gems and Timberlake Wertenbaker as well as extensive documentation of contemporary playwriting in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, including figures such as Liz Lochhead and Anne Devlin
ER  -