Books by Penny Farfan

How women playwrights illuminate the contemporary world while also contributing to its reshaping.

Focusing on well-known plays and performances of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries, Performing Queer Modernism demonstrates that queer performance was integral to modernism, that queer modernist performance played a key role in the historical emergence of modern sexual identities, and that it anticipated the insights of contemporary queer modernist studies.

A wide-ranging collection of essays addressing the work of contemporary international women playwrights. Contributions from leading scholars foreground the diversity and power of women's playwriting since 1990, highlighting key voices, analyzing a wide range of works, and exploring crucial critical and theoretical developments within the field.