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BrownleatherbinderandpeAustin, Gayle, 'The Madwoman in the Spotlight: Plays of Maria Irene Fornes' in Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women's Theatre, ed. Lynda Hart, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,1989), pp.76-85.

Betsko, Kathleen and Rachel Koenig, Interviews with Contemporary Women Playwrights, (New York: Beech Tree Books/Quill, 1987).

Bottoms, Stephen J., ' "Language is the Motor": Maria Irene Fornes's Promenade as Text and Performance' in New England Theatre Journal, Vol.8, 1997, pp.45-??

Bottoms, Stephen J., Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004).

Chaudhuri, Una, 'Maria Irene Fornes' in Speaking On Stage: Interviews With Contemporary American Playwrights, eds, Philip C. Kolin and Colby H. Kullman, (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996), pp.98-114.

Cohn, Ruby, New American Dramatists 1960-1990, (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1982).

Susan Letzler Cole, 'Maria Irene Fornes Directs Uncle Vanya and Abingdon Square' in Directors In Rehearsal: A Hidden World, (London and New York: Routledge, 1992), pp.34-54.

Cummings, Scott T., 'Seeing with Clarity: The Visions of Maria Irene Fornes' in Theatre, Vol.7, 1985, pp.51-56.

Cummings, Scott T., 'Maria Irene Fornes' in American Playwrights Since 1945, ed. Philip Kolin, (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1989), pp.111-123.

Cummings, Scott T., 'Fornes's Odd Couple: Oscar and Bertha at the Magic Theatre', Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Vol.8, 1994, pp.147-156.

Cummings, Scott T., 'Psychic Space: The Interiors of Maria Irene Fornes,' The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Vol.10, No.2, Spring 1998, pp.59-73.

Delgado, Maria M., and Paul Heritage, eds, In Contact With The Gods?: Directors talk theatre, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996).

Delgado, Maria M., and Caridad Svich, eds, Conducting a Life: Reflections On The Theatre of Maria Irene Fornes, (Lyme, New Hampshire: Smith and Kraus, 1999).

Drukman, Steven, 'notes on fornes (with apologies to Susan Sontag),' American Theatre, September, 2000, pp.36,38-39,85.

Fliotsos, Anne and Vierow, Wendy American Women Stage Directors of the Twentieth Century, (Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2008), pp.179-189.

Fornes, Maria Irene, 'I write these messages that come', Drama Theatre Review, Vol. 21, No.4, December 1977, pp.25-40.

Fornes, Maria Irene, 'Creative Danger', American Theatre, September, Vol.11 (No.5), (1985), pp.13,15.

Garner, Stanton B., Jnr., Bodied Spaces: Phenomenology and Performance in Contemporary Drama, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994).

Gener, Randy, 'Conversation with Maria Fornes', The Dramatist, January/February, 2000.

Geis, Deborah R., 'Wordscapes of the Body: Performative Language as Gestus in Maria Irene Fornes's Plays', Theatre Journal, Vol.42, No.3, October 1990, pp.291-307.

Kent, Assunta Bartolomucci, Maria Irene Fornes and Her Critics, (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996).

Kintz, Linda, 'Gendering the Critique of Representation: Fascism, the Purified Body, and Theatre in Adorno, Artaud, and Maria Irene Fornes', Rethinking Marxism, Vol.4,No.3, Fall 1991, pp.83-100.

Koppen, Randi, 'Formalism and the Return to the Body: Stein's and Fornes' Aesthetic of Significant Forms', New Literary History, 28, 1997, pp.791-809.

Randi, Koppen, 'Formalism and the Return to the Body: Stein's and Fornes's Aesthetic of Significant Form', New Literary History, 28: 1997, pp.791-809.

Marranca, Bonnie and Gautan Dasgupta, eds, Conversations On Art and Performance, (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1999), pp.288-294.

Marranca, Bonnie, Theatrewritings, (New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1984).

Marranca, Bonnie, Ecologies of Theatre, (Baltimore, Maryland: John Hopkins University Press, 1996).

Moroff, Diane Lynn, Fornes: Theatre in the Present Tense, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997).

O'Malley, Laurana Donnels, 'Pressing Clothes/Snapping Beans/Reading Books: Maria Irene Fornes's Women's Work', Studies in American Drama:1945 - Present, Vol.4, 1989, pp.103-111.

Paran, Janice, 'Redressing Ibsen: Directors Fornes, Near and Mann Emancipate His Proto-Feminist Plays From Their Victorian Bonds', American Theatre, 4, No.8, November 1987, pp.14-20.

Rabillard, Sheila, 'Crossing Cultures and Kinds: Maria Irene Fornes and the Performance of a Post-Modern Sublime', Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Spring 1997, pp.33-43.

Robinson, Marc, The Other American Drama, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Savran, David, In Their Own Words: Contemporary American Playwrights, (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1988).

Schmidman, JoAnn, Sora Kimberlain and Megan Terry, eds, Right Brain Vacation Photos: New Plays and Production Photographs from the Omaha Magic Theatre, 1972-1992, (Omaha, Nebraska: Omaha Magic Theatre,1992).

Telgen, Diane, and Jim Kemp, eds, Notable Hispanic American Women, (Detroit: Gale Research, 1993).

Ross Wetzsteon, 'Irene Fornes: Elements of Style', The Village Voice, April 29, 1986, pp.42-45.

Worthen, W. B., 'Still Playing Games: Ideology and Performance in the Theatre of Maria Irene Fornes', Feminine Focus: The New Women Playwrights, ed. Enoch Brater, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp.167-185.

Zinman, Toby Silverman, 'Hen in a Foxhouse: The Absurdist Plays of Maria Irene Fornes', Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama eds, Enoch Brater and Ruby Cohn, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991), pp.203-220.

 

 

 

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