Timberlake Wertenbaker
Standard Name: Wertenbaker, Timberlake
Birth Name: Lael Louisiana Timberlake Wertenbaker
, an American-born European who writes for the British stage, is an experimental dramatist, adaptor, translator, and radio dramatist. Central topics in her work are the efforts of individuals, particularly women: pursuing quests, seeking change, breaking boundaries, and constructing or challenging gender roles. A central technique is the revisioning of actual or imaginary lives from the past, sometimes remote in place as well as in time.
Timeline
Texts
Wertenbaker, Timberlake. Abel’s Sister. 1984.
Wertenbaker, Timberlake. After Darwin. Faber and Faber, 1998.
Wertenbaker, Timberlake. Case to Answer. 1980.
Wertenbaker, Timberlake. Jefferson’s Garden. Faber and Faber, 2015.
Wertenbaker, Timberlake. Our Country’s Good. Methuen, in association with the Royal Court Theatre, 1988.
Clough, David, Nick Darke, John Fletcher, Ellen Fox, Lennie James, and Timberlake Wertenbaker. Plays Introduction: Plays by New Writers. Faber and Faber, 1984.
Wertenbaker, Timberlake. The Break of Day. Faber and Faber, 1995.
Wertenbaker, Timberlake. The Grace of Mary Traverse. Faber and Faber, 1985.
Wertenbaker, Timberlake. The Love of the Nightingale and The Grace of Mary Traverse. Faber and Faber, 1989.
Wertenbaker, Timberlake. The Thebans. Faber and Faber, 1992.
Wertenbaker, Timberlake. Three Birds Alighting on a Field. Faber and Faber, 1992.
Wertenbaker, Timberlake. Timberlake Wertenbaker: Plays 1. Faber and Faber, 1996.
Wertenbaker, Timberlake. Timberlake Wertenbaker: Plays 2. Faber and Faber, 2002.