Edition |
[Rev. ed.] / with a commentary by Bill Naismith and notes by Nick Worrall. |
Description |
1 online resource (lv, 102 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : portraits. |
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text file |
Series |
Methuen drama student editions
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Methuen drama student editions.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary |
The play opens with an anachronistic dinner party hosted by Marlene, the newly-promoted manager of the Top Girls employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: a transvestite Pope, a courtesan-cum-nun, a tireless adventurer, an obedient wife from Chaucer and the leader of a charge into hell from a Bruegel painting. The feminist themes introduced by this cacophonous scene echo throughout the more contemporary action of the play, as Churchill uses the setting of the `Top Girls' agency to allow a glimpse into the lives of several very different working women. |
Note |
Compatible with accessibility standards for most Level A (Priority 1) and AA (Priority 2) success criteria of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) developed by the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C). |
Local Note |
Bloomsbury Drama Online - Core Collection |
Subject |
Women -- Employment -- Drama.
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Women -- Employment. |
Genre/Form |
Drama.
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Drama.
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Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
Added Author |
Naismith, William.
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Worrall, Nick.
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Other Form: |
Print version : 9781408106037 |
ISBN |
9781408167595.00000034 |
Standard No. |
10.5040/9781408167595.00000034 |
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