Table of Contents

Caryl Churchill chronology; 1. Introduction: on Caryl Churchill Elaine Aston and Elin Diamond; 2. On feminist and sexual politics Janelle Reinelt; 3. On owning and owing: Caryl Churchill and the nightmare of capital Jean E. Howard; 4. On the challenge of revolution Mary Luckhurst; 5. On text and dance: new questions and new forms Libby Worth; 6. On Caryl Churchill's ecological drama: right to poison the wasps? Sheila Rabillard; 7. On performance and selfhood in Caryl Churchill R. Darren Gobert; 8. On Churchill and terror Elin Diamond; 9. On collaboration: 'not ordinary, not safe' Elaine Aston; 10. On Churchill's influences Dan Rebellato; Select bibliography: Caryl Churchill.

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Presents new scholarship on the innovative playwright Caryl Churchill, discussing her major plays alongside topics including sexual politics and terror.

About the Author

Elaine Aston is Professor of Contemporary Performance at Lancaster University. Elin Diamond is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University.

Reviews

'This is a much-needed and long-awaited addition to the Cambridge Companion series … The volume has been conceptualized and shaped with great care, so it will be of use to a broad range of readers and researchers … The editors have successfully composed a nonlinear, non-chronological volume in order to echo the non-linearity of so much of Churchill's work.' Maggie B. Gale, New Theatre Quarterly