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Feminist Revisionism and The Theatrical Representation of Female SubjectivityOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Abstract : This dissertation presents a feminist-revisionist study of Caryl Churchill’s and Sarah Daniels’ theatrical representations of history, myth, and gender in their drama. In fact, the two feminist dramatists represent the history of the witchcraft trials in 17th century England from a feminist perspective in Vinegar Tom (1976) and Byrthrite (1987). Moreover, they make a revisionist representation of myth in their A Mouthful of Birds (1986) and Neaptide (1986). Finally, both Churchill and Daniels re-vision gender construction and gender-based violence in their Cloud Nine (1979) and masterpieces (1983). The current PhD study offers a new understanding of history and myth, which could form an alternative kind of history and myth to the “official” male-made ones. Significantly, this dissertation attempts to analyze the selected plays in terms of form and content. Interestingly, the two playwrights represent a revolutionary content in a very innovative form. Their main objective is to focus on the female subjectivity through their theatrical representation and to establish a new female- gaze to replace the male one. The content of their plays deals with very controversial issues including, women’s oppression within a patriarchal system, reproductive rights, gender construction, sexuality, queer identities, sexual orientations, and violence. These provocative subjects are represented through the use of many innovative devices and techniques. Most of the devices employed by Churchill and Daniels are Brechtian including, historicization, cross-dressing, doubling, monologues, music, songs, voice over, and mock-trials. All in all, this present dissertation re-explores the dramatic and theatrical representations of history, myth, and gender construction in both Churchill’s and Daniels’ feminist drama. It holds a comparison between the two playwrights, one is identified as a socialist feminist and the other one is radical, in terms of their different dramatic techniques of approaching the revision of history, myth, and gender construction.