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Women and German Drama - Playwrights and Their Texts 1860-1945 (Hardcover, Revised and Revised and Updated to Include New Develop ed.)
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Women and German Drama - Playwrights and Their Texts 1860-1945 (Hardcover, Revised and Revised and Updated to Include New Develop ed.)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Explores the traditional bias against women's drama and asks to
what extent women playwrights have been able to overcome it. For
women, according to the contemporary Austrian dramatist Elfriede
Jelinek, writing for the theater is an act of transgression. The
idea that drama as a grand public genre resists women writers has
become established in recent scholarship. But Jelinek herself has
won the Buchner Prize, the most prestigious award in German
letters, and there is a wealth of dramatic work by women from the
20th century and before: both facts seem to contradict the notion
ofwomen's exclusion from drama. So why has drama by women appear to
have been written against the odds, and why has it, until very
recently, been missing from literary histories? This book looks in
detail at women's playwriting inGerman between 1860 and 1945, and
at its reception by critics. Many of the works considered have
never before been analyzed by modern scholarship; others, notably
the plays of Marieluise Fleisser and Else Lasker-Schuler, are
wellknown, but are read here for the first time in the context of
earlier dramatic work by women. Sarah Colvin seeks modes of reading
that do justice both to the dramatic texts as performance texts,
and to the sense of "otherness" experienced by the woman writer in
a male-dominated literary and theatrical environment. She concludes
that an understanding of the techniques developed by women
playwrights of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
canenrich our reading not only of Fleisser and Lasker, but of
contemporary dramatists such as Jelinek. If all the world's a
stage, playwrights can theoretically be seen as in control of the
world they create; this book asks to what extent women dramatists
manage to use the space of the drama to reflect the world that they
experience. Sarah Colvin is Reader in German at the University of
Edinburgh.
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