Rebecca D'Monte's Outputs (7)

Moving back to “Home” and “Nation:” Women dramatists, 1938-1945 (2013)
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The blurring of public/private space during the Second World War also effected a privileging of the female voice and experience by redrawing loci of work and home, and by politicising the domestic. In doing this, some of the plays of the time can be... Read More about Moving back to “Home” and “Nation:” Women dramatists, 1938-1945.

Drama, 1920-1945 (2012)
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Women dramatists were surprisingly well represented between 1920 and 1945, and include such figures as Muriel Box, Clemence Dane, Cicely Hamilton, Gertrude Jennings, Esther McCracken, Dodie Smith, and G. B. Stern. Reasons for this can be traced to th... Read More about Drama, 1920-1945.

Passion, penury and psychosis: Representations of the spinster by interwar dramatists (2012)
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The impact of first-wave feminism and the First World War led to the spinster - someone who is past her marriageable date - becoming a repository during the interwar period for society’s fears and anxieties about the place of the older woman, as well... Read More about Passion, penury and psychosis: Representations of the spinster by interwar dramatists.

April de Angelis (2011)
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Feminizing the nation and the country house: Women dramatists, 1938-1941 (2009)
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Changing form: Stage, film and TV adaptations of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca (2009)
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Voicing abuse/voicing gender (2006)
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Confessional memoirs have become increasingly popular during the few decades, and it is interesting to note that this phenomenon has also occurred on the stage. This has been spurred through the use of the theatrical monologue, which creates an inti... Read More about Voicing abuse/voicing gender.