This text (with considerable input from its performers) has been included in more than one anthology: in Herstory, Plays by Women for Women, edited by Gabriele Griffin
and Elaine Aston
, and published by...
Anthologization
Bryony Lavery
This play was included in Herstory: Volume 1: Plays by Women for Women, edited by Gabriele Griffin
and Elaine Aston
, and published by Sheffield Academic Press
, 1991.
Literary responses
Sarah Daniels
Its horrific material and particularly its bleak conclusion have made this SD
's best-known play. It is also the most controversial. Initial reviews included plenty of accusations of lesbian man-hating. Many reviewers (says feminist critic...
Literary responses
Sarah Daniels
Critics Elaine Aston
and Geraldine Harris
discern increased psychological realism in SD
's radio plays (as opposed to the broken realism of her stage plays), and a way of writing the domestic which subverts the...
Literary responses
Sarah Daniels
SD
's plays have been staged around the world: in Ireland, Germany, Denmark, Canada, Australia, and Japan. Elaine Aston
and Janelle Reinelt
have discussed her as an example of...
Literary responses
Winsome Pinnock
Elaine Aston
saw this play as taking issue with a politics that drives a wedge between black and white people, as presenting an evolving transnational feminism.
Aston, Elaine. Feminist Views on the English Stage: Women Playwrights, 1990-2000. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
The all-black cast meant the play was limitingly regarded as a black play. Elaine Aston
commended it, however, for its take on global capitalism as a topic broader than dilemmas of race or gender.
Aston, Elaine. Feminist Views on the English Stage: Women Playwrights, 1990-2000. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Literary responses
Pam Gems
Critic Elaine Aston
expressed some misgivings about the narrative demonisation of the second wife and the destruction of the first, but suggested that on closer inspection . . . the canvas of Stanley emerges as...
Reception
Sarah Daniels
This play has been used in a radio drama workshop by Elaine Aston
and Geraldine Harris
, and the script has been posted by the BBC
on its website Writersroom because it has such pedagogic...
Textual Features
Pam Gems
In this drama PG
returns to the subject matter of her translation and adaptationThe Danton Affair, made in 1986 from Przybyszewska
's 1930s play of the same title. In PG
's The Snow...
Timeline
1991: Elisabeth Bond's play Love and Dissent was...
Women writers item
1991
Elisabeth Bond
's play Love and Dissent was included in Herstory: Volume 2: Plays by Women for Women edited by Elaine Aston
and Gabriele Griffin
.
Aston, Elaine. Feminist Views on the English Stage: Women Playwrights, 1990-2000. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Aston, Elaine. Feminist Views on the English Stage: Women Playwrights, 1990-2000. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Aston, Elaine. “Pam Gems: Body Politics and Biography”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 157-73.
Aston, Elaine, and Geraldine Harris. Performance Practice and Process: Contemporary (Women) Practitioners. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Aston, Elaine, and Ian Clarke. “Staging the Shop-Girl in Edwardian Drama”. On-Stage Studies, Vol.
20
, 1997, pp. 7-27.
Aston, Elaine, and Janelle Reinelt, editors. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Griffin, Gabriele. “Violence, Abuse, and Gender Relations in the Plays of Sarah Daniels”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 194-11.
Lavery, Bryony. “Witchcraze”. Herstory, edited by Gabriele Griffin et al., Sheffield Academic Press, 1991.
Wandor, Michelene. “Women playwrights and the challenge of feminism in the 1970s”. Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 53-68.
Trotter, Mary. “Women playwrights in Northern Ireland”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 119-33.