Elaine Aston

Standard Name: Aston, Elaine

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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...
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...
Anthologization Elaine Feinstein
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...
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...
Textual Features Pam Gems
In this drama PG returns to the subject matter of her translation and adaptation The Danton Affair, made in 1986 from Przybyszewska 's 1930s play of the same title. In PG 's The Snow...
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 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.
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Eva-Maria Cersovsky discussed the play in 2013 in...
Literary responses Winsome Pinnock
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.
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Timeline

1991: Elisabeth Bond's play Love and Dissent was...

Women writers item

1991

Elisabeth Bond 's playLove and Dissent was included in Herstory: Volume 2: Plays by Women for Women edited by Elaine Aston and Gabriele Griffin .

Texts

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
, 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.