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Abstract
The Concept of Feminism in Women’s Theatre as
Manifested in The Major Plays of The British Playwright Caryl
Churchill and The Egyptian Playwright Fathiya El-Assal: A
Comparative Study .
Comparative literature, , takes particular interest in the examination
and comparison of different literary cultures. This thesis analyses the
works of the British playwright, Caryl Churchill (1939-) and the Egyptian
playwright, Fathiya El-Assal (1933), to compare how women’s
oppression and women’s liberation are depicted in the plays of each.
Chapter I, depicts the historical as well as the social influences of ”the
feminist” movement women playwrights. It analyses the statures of
women playwrights, and the theatre at large, before and after the rise and
spread of the feminist-socialist movement. It also gives a full survey of
the women playwrights and their plays both in the British and in the
Egyptian theatre. Chapter II, provides a detailed critical analysis of the
theme of oppression in three major plays of each dramatists. Chapter III,
analyzes the theme of liberation in the plays of them. The conclusion
reached proves and accounts for the scarcity of women playwrights in the
Egyptian theatre.