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Four female British plays deal with a poet and her mother, a family's breakdown in communication, a woman who literally wrestles with her problems and the interaction of a group of office workers.

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one hell of a seminal read ... Here is a book that grapples, with energy, ingenuity and terrific intellectual rigour, with a bewildering forest of issues around gender and politics ... illuminating, insightful, perceptive.' - Women's Review

These eighty-one stories were arbitrarily fashioned during a single year. Michelene Wandor, a playwright, poet, fiction writer and cultural critic, invited family members, friends - and some passing acquaintances - to give her four random words. These quartets signal each story as a kind of riddle: the solution in the title, the clues, Marple and Poirot-like, embedded in each brief narrative. Punning, witty, scholarly, off the wall, each with ...

Critical-Creative Writing: Two Sides of the Same Coin is a unique Reader, bridging the gap between Creative Writing (CW) how-to handbooks, and anthologies of Literary and Cultural Theory. This ground-breaking guide reveals the historical roots of many of the pedagogic concepts which underlie the critical study of CW. Graven images in the Old Testament are echoed in classical mimesis, which, in its turn, resonates in nineteenth-century realism,...

Michelene Wandor's new poetry collection travels in many directions. There is geography: Italy, Palestine, Ethiopia, Mesopotamia, France, Egypt, the Lebanon, and, of course, the UK. Embarked personnel include Gertrude Bell, T.E. Lawrence, Marlon Brando, Isabella d'Este and Lucrezia Borgia, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, George Bernard Shaw and the Gonzagas. Thematically, the poems alight at Greek mythology, gender, the evergreens of love, ang...

Third in a sequence of long poems celebrating the presence of the Jews in England, this work looks back to 1655-1656 when the Jews once more became a part of British society after their banishment from England in 1290. It presents the story of the two men, Oliver Cromwell and Menasseh ben Israel, who made this return possible.

Contains a collection of poetry by Michelene Wandor that comprises of a retelling of the "Book of Esther" and her speculation on Shakespeare's "Dark Lady of the Sonnets".

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Michelene Wandor, a respected commentator on sexual politics in the theater, looks again at the best-known British plays of the post-war period. Juxtaposing the period before 1968 when statutory censorship still existed with the years following, Wandor scrutinizes a careful selection of plays, many of which are firmly in place as part of our contemporary canon, through the lenses of World War II, the testing of gender roles, the development of...

Michelene Wandor, a respected commentator on sexual politics in the theater, looks again at the best-known British plays of the post-war period. Juxtaposing the period before 1968 when statutory censorship still existed with the years following, Wandor scrutinizes a careful selection of plays, many of which are firmly in place as part of our contemporary canon, through the lenses of World War II, the testing of gender roles, the development ...

Providing a historical, literary and theoretical resource for creative writing students and their teachers, this title offers grounding for critical commentaries and provides material for workshop use and clarification of the critical process itself.