Wendy Wasserstein
Subtitle: A Casebook (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780815329534
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: from c 1900 -; Plays / Drama; Wasserstein, Wendy - Plays & Criticism; American English; English; Literary Criticism; USA; United States; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Criticism and interpretation; American; Drama; 20th century; History; Wasserstein, Wendy; Women and literature
First sentence: Wendy Wasserstein describes the genesis of Uncommon Women in a telling anecdote: "I made the decision to write a play with all women after seeing all that Jacobean drama, where a man kisses the poisoned lips of a woman's skull and drops dead" (Interview 1987, 425).