Marsha Norman
Subtitle: A Casebook (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780815313526
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: from c 1900 -; Women Authors; Literary Criticism; Norman, Marsha - Plays & Criticism; Plays / Drama; American English; English; USA; Norman, Marsha; American; Theater - General; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Women and literature; American - General; Drama; 20th century; Criticism and interpretation; History; United States
First sentence: Dramatizing that the personal is indeed political, Marsha Norman's play, Getting Out, depicts a social world that justifies the systematic violation and oppression of human beings through its most "moral" institutions: religion, medicine, education, correctional rehabilitation, and the family.