Essays and Scripts on How Mothers Are Portrayed in the Theater: A Neglected Frontier of Feminist Scholarship
Author(s): Beth and Anna Andes Osnes (Author)
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Publication Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0779902297
ISBN-13: 9780779902293
Book Description
This collection examines the nexus of mothering, feminism, and theatre. The work examines the portrayals of mothers in literature and on the performance stage, and makes a contribution to studies in dramatic literature, women’s studies, feminist theory, and theatre history.
Essays and Scripts on How Mothers Are Portrayed in the Theater: A Neglected Frontier of Feminist Scholarship
Author(s): Beth Osnes (Editor), Anna Andes (Editor), Kathryn Moller (Foreword)
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr
Publication Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Print length: 330 pages
ISBN-10: 0773437797
ISBN-13: 9780773437791
Book Description
This book explores how mothers are portrayed on the stage, whether by male or female playwrights, for what likely reasons, and to what efffect, both in the present and in the past, ranging from the monstrous step-mother to the mother exalted as a nationalist symbol.
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This book explores how mothers are portrayed on the stage, whether by male or female playwrights, for what likely reasons, and to what efffect, both in the present and in the past, ranging from the monstrous step-mother to the mother exalted as a nationalist symbol.
About the Author
Dr.Osner is a Fulbright Scholar, instructor of theatre for over 13 years. She his B.A. from Marquette University, M.A. and Ph.D from University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Andes has B.A. Classics and Theatre, M.A. Theatre, Ph.D Theatre. She has Classics, theatre production in directing and design, instructor of theatre of over five yeats.
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