Feminist Views on the English Stage: Women Playwrights, 1990-2000

Feminist Views on the English Stage is an exciting and insightful study of contemporary drama from a feminist perspective, one that challenges an idea of the 1990s as a ‘post-feminist’ decade and pays attention to women’s playwriting marginalized by a ‘renaissance’ of angry young men. Working through a generational mix of writers, from Sarah Kane, the iconoclastic ‘bad girl’ of the stage, to the ‘canonical’ Caryl Churchill, Elaine Aston charts the significant political and aesthetic changes in women’s playwriting at the century’s end. Aston also explores new writing for the 1990s in theatre by Sarah Daniels, Bryony Lavery, Phyllis Nagy, Winsome Pinnock, Rebecca Prichard, Judy Upton and Timberlake Wertenbaker.