1 - A century in view: from suffrage to the 1990s

pp 1-20

Part I - Retrospectives

pp 21-21

Editors’ note

pp 22-22

2 - Women playwrights of the 1920s and 1930s

pp 23-37

3 - New plays and women’s voices in the 1950s

pp 38-52

4 - Women playwrights and the challenge of feminism in the 1970s

pp 53-68

Part II - National tensions and intersections

pp 69-69

Editors’ note

pp 70-72

5 - The politics of location

pp 73-81

6 - Contemporary Welsh women playwrights

pp 82-93

7 - Contemporary Scottish women playwrights

pp 94-118

8 - Women playwrights in Northern Ireland

pp 119-133

9 - Language and identity in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s plays

pp 134-150

Part III - The question of the canon

pp 151-151

Editors’ note

pp 152-156

10 - Pam Gems: body politics and biography

pp 157-173

11 - Caryl Churchill and the politics of style

pp 174-194

12 - Violence, abuse and gender relations in the plays of Sarah Daniels

pp 194-212

Part IV - The subject of identity

pp 213-213

Editors’ note

pp 214-216

13 - Small island people: black British women playwrights

pp 217-234

14 - Writing outside the mainstream

pp 253-252

15 - Lesbian performance in the transnational arena

pp 253-267

Index

pp 268-276