TRANSFORMING SHAKESPEARE: CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S RE-VISIONS IN LITERATURE AND PERFORMANCE.(Review)
American Theatre, May, 2001 by Borg, Dominica
TRANSFORMING SHAKESPEARE: CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S RE-VISIONS IN LITERATURE AND PERFORMANCE Marianne Novy, ed., Palgrave, New York. 264 pp, $18.95 paper.
THIS BOOK IS A COLLECTION OF postmodern feminist musings that includes novelist Jane Smiley's fascinating account of the genesis of A Thousand Acres, her modern version of King Lear. One essay that will interest theatre folks (and maybe movie-makers) is "Claribel at Palace Dot Tunis," Linda Bamber's richly imagined Internet epistolary ...
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