[audiobook] Applied Theatre: International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice by Connolly Maeve; Monica Prendergast in Arts-Photography

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No other anthologies of Italian women dramatists exist than this. This is a first translation into English of four plays unknown to academic and general public. It includes introductions to each playwright; and critical analysis; historical context and performance history of their plays. It could be used in undergraduate/graduate courses on international women writers in translation; Italian literature; or womens theatre. Books about twentieth-century Italian drama seldom discuss plays by women and when they do very little is written about women dramatists before 1960; even in recent studies of contemporary Italian womens theatre. "Italian Womens Theatre; 1930-1960" redresses this imbalance by providing the first English translation of works by Paola Riccora; Anna Bonacci; Clotilde Masci; and Gici Ganzini Granata. Between 1930 and 1960 these women achieved a high degree of popularity and success; and although their names and works are now largely unknown; even among theatre practitioners and academics; these authors set the stage for the next generation of feminist theatre in the 1970s and for the development of contemporary Italian womens theatre as whole.Following a general introduction the book has four sections; each containing an introduction to the playwright - including biographical information - a translation of one of their major dramatic works; a commentary on the play and the plays performance history; and critical analysis of other works. Translations include: "It Must Have Been Giovannino"; "The Fantasy Hour"; "The Excluded" and "Men Are Always Right".