num_pages: 217
description: These three authors address the problems of female authority and authorship by reworking the myths of Phaedra, Ariadne, Hippolytus, and Theseus in plays intended for reading rather than performance. By rewriting Greek tragedy they enact their own displacement within a masculine literary tradition and struggle to define themselves as women writers.
language: English
title: The Troubling Play of Gender: The Phaedra Dramas of Tsvetaeva, Yourcenar, and H.D.
titlecomplete: The Troubling Play of Gender: The Phaedra Dramas of Tsvetaeva, Yourcenar, and H.D.
publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press