Lochhead, Liz. True Confessions and New Clichés. Polygon Books, 1985.
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the revue explores many facets of a woman's life, from her dramas, her traumas, and her fiascos to her fainting spasms; / the ins-and-outs of her...
Literary responses
Liz Lochhead
Critic Anne Varty
praised this wittily elusive film for being generous to the audience, at once empowering and teasing,
Varty, Anne. “The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, 1997, pp. 641-58.
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and for succeeding in making this most transparent of media into an opaque reflector of...
Textual Features
Liz Lochhead
The volume opens with LL
's early prize-winning poems. It contains poems on childhood memories and others on young-adult love-affairs. Many demonstrate her witty use of voice and wordplay. Morning After, for instance, uses...
Textual Features
Liz Lochhead
Mary makes Lochhead's usual exuberant use of Scottish English. LL
based Queen Elizabeth
's character on Margaret Thatcher
(the Thatcher monster).
qtd. in
Varty, Anne. “The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, 1997, pp. 641-58.
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In contrast to this topicality, as critic Anne Varty
observes, her Queen...
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Texts
Whyte, Hamish. “Liz Lochhead: A Checklist”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, 1993, pp. 170-91.
Smith, Ali. “Liz Lochhead: Speaking in Her Own Voice”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, 1993, pp. 1-16.
McDonald, Jan, and Jennifer Harvie. “Putting New Twists to Old Stories: Feminism and Lochhead’s Drama”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, 1993, pp. 124-47.
Varty, Anne. “Scripts and Performances”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, 1993, pp. 148-69.
Varty, Anne. “The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, 1997, pp. 641-58.
Boyd, S. J. “The Voice of Revelation: Liz Lochhead and Monsters”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, 1993, pp. 38-56.
Crawford, Robert. “Two-Faced Language”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, 1993, pp. 57-74.