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Drama Canadian

Judith Thompson: Late 20th Century Plays

1980-2000

by (author) Judith Thompson

introduction by Ric Knowles

afterword by Helen Gilbert

Publisher
Playwrights Canada Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2003
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887546204
    Publish Date
    Sep 2003
    List Price
    $47.00

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About the authors

 

Judith Thompson is a two-time winner of the Governor Generalâ??s Literary Award for White Biting Dog and The Other Side of the Dark. In 2006 she was invested as an Officer in the Order of Canada and in 2008 she was awarded the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play Palace of the End. Judith is a professor of drama at the University of Guelph and lives with her husband and five children in Toronto.

 

 

Judith Thompson's profile page

Ric Knowles is of anglo-Scottish heritage, and is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, editor of Canadian Theatre Review, and past editor of Modern Drama (1999â??2005). He is author of The Theatre of Form and the Production of Meaning, Shakespeare and Canada, and Reading the Material Theatre, co-author (with the Cultural Memory Group) of Remembering Women Murdered by Men, editor of Theatre in Atlantic Canada, Judith Thompson, and The Masks of Judith Thompson, and co-editor (with Joanne Tompkins and W.B.Worthen) of Modern Drama: Defining the Field. He is general editor of the book series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English and New Essays on Canadian Theatre from Playwrights Canada Press.

Ric Knowles' profile page

Helen Gilbert's profile page