The Troubling Play of Gender

The Troubling Play of Gender

Author: Maria Stadter Fox

Publisher: Susquehanna University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9781575910352

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"Although these three modernist writers were not primarily playwrights, as expatriates they were interested in the Euripidean theme of women in exile: each independently chose to rewrite Euripides' Hippolytus, a play in which the protagonist is a woman in exile whose speech, writing, and passion are deeply problematic. Each author approaches the Euripidean material in a different way: Tsvetaeva focuses on gender in language, Yourcenar explores the gendering of a self, and H.D. performs the undoing of gendered oppositions."--BOOK JACKET.