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Sharon Pollock's Plays: A Review Article

1984/01/01 by Robert Nunn · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Theatre and Performance Studies #Pollock #Theme (computing) #Mythology #Identity (music) #Sociology #Media studies #History #Literature #Aesthetics #Art #Art history #Computer science

paper · doi:10.3138/tric.5.1.72

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Abstract

Sharon Pollock has been writing for the stage, radio and television for more than ten years. Although her television and radio plays are not readily accessible, a survey of those of her stage plays which are available (and two of her radio plays) reveals a dramatist who has given her central theme, the effect of social issues and public myths on individual lives, a progressively richer treatment. In particular individual identity, taken for granted in her first plays, becomes in Blood Relations a mystery, explored and reassessed with troubling impact.

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