Reinterpreting History and Restructuring Female Identities in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls and Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good.
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to examine representation
of marginal female identities and how history is reinterpreted to demonstrate
the constant position of women in Carly Churchill’s play Top Girls and Timberlake Wertenbaker’s play Our Country’s Good. It discusses the representation of women
identities with an exploration of female subjectivity, “personal is political”
feminism and the establishment of a new female self in a patriarchal society.
Both Churchill and Wertenbaker draw attention to historical subjects and past
time, which make the history play an important role in writing their dramas.
Keywords
women’s theatre and history,women identities,socialist feminism,personal is political
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