Bibliography: Wendy Wasserstein

Balakian, Jan: "The Heidi Chronicles: The Big Chill of Feminism", South Atlantic Review 60 (1995): 93-101.

Balakian, Jan: "Wendy Wasserstein: A Feminist Voice from the Seventies to the Present", in: Murphy, Brenda (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999, 213-31.

Birkle, Carmen. "Revising America, Revisioning the Past: American Drama in a Global(izing) World." Global Challenges and Regional Responses in Contemporary Drama in English. Contemporary Drama in English 10. Ed. Jochen Achilles, Ina Bergmann and Birgit Däwes. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002. 105-120.

Becker, Becky K.: "Women Who Choose: The Theme of Mothering in Selected Dramas", American Drama 6 (1997): 43-57.

Canning, Charlotte: "Feminists Perform Their Past: Constructing History in The Heidi Chronicles and The Break of Day", Gale, Maggie B. and Viv Gardner (eds.): Women, Theatre and Performance: New Histories, New Historiographies, Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000, 163-79.

Carlson, Susan L.: "Comic Textures and Female Communities 1937 and 1977: Clare Booth and Wendy Wasserstein", Modern Drama 27 (1984): 564-573. [reissued in: Schlueter, June (ed.): Modern American Drama: The Female Canon, Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1990, 207-217.]

Chirico, Miriam M.: "Female Laughter and Comic Possibilities: Uncommon Women and Others", in: King, Kimball (ed.): Modern Dramatists: A Casebook of Major British, Irish, and American Playwrights, New York: Routledge, 2001, 339-59.

Douthit, Lue Morgan: "Reconsidering the Feminism of 'Heidi': A Look at the Comic Structure in The Heidi Chronicles", Text and Presentation 14 (1993): 11-19.

Fornes, Maria Irene, Wendy MacLeod, Emily Mann, Suzan Lori Parks, Wendy Wasserstein, Susan Yankowitz and Mary Zimmerman: "Sources of Information", American Theatre 15 (1998): 32-33, 81-82.

Frank, Glenda: "The Struggle to Affirm: The Image of Jewish-Americans on Stage", in: Maufort, Marc (ed.): Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama, New York: Peter Lang, 1995, 245-57.

Homes, A. M.: "Wendy Wasserstein", BOMB 75 (2001): 34-39.

Keyssar, Helene: "Drama and the Dialogic Imagination: The Heidi Chronicles and Fefu and Her Friends", Modern Drama 34 (1991): 88-106. [reissued in: Keyssar, Helene (ed.): Feminist Theatre and Theory, New York: St. Martin's, 1996, 109-36.]

Mandl, Bette: "Feminism, Postfeminism, and The Heidi Chronicles", Studies in the Humanities 17 (1990): 120-28.

Watermeier, Daniel J.: "The Search for Self: Attachment, Loss, and Recovery in The Heidi Chronicles", in: Maufort, Marc (ed.): Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama, New York: Peter Lang, 1995, 351-62.

Whitfield, Stephen J.: "Wendy Wasserstein and the Crisis of (Jewish) Identity", in: Halio, Jay L. and Ben Siegel (eds.): Daughters of Valor: Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers, Newark, DE: U of Delaware P, 1997, 226-46.

Interviews:

Balakian, Jan: "Wendy Wasserstein", in: Kolin, Philip C. and Colby H. Kullman (eds.): Speaking on Stage: Interviews with Contemporary American Playwrights, Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1996, 379-91.

Coen, Stephanie: "A World, One's Life: An Interview with the Playwright", American Theatre 14 (1997): 24.

Cohen, Esther: "Uncommon Woman: An Interview with Wendy Wasserstein", Women's Studies 15 (1988): 257-270.

Jacobson, Leslie: "Wendy Wasserstein", in: Bryer, Jackson R. (ed.): The Playwright's Art: Conversations with Contemporary American Dramatists, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1995, 257-76.


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