The Troubling Play Of Gender: The Phaedra Dramas of Tsvetaeva, Yourcenar, and H.D

These three authors address the problems of female authority and authorship by reworking the myths of Phaedra, Ariadne, Hippolytus, and Theseus in plays intended for reading rather than performance. By rewriting Greek tragedy they enact their own displacement within a masculine literary tradition and struggle to define themselves as women writers.Maria Stadter Fox is the author of 'The Troubling Play Of Gender: The Phaedra Dramas of Tsvetaeva, Yourcenar, and H.D', published 2001 under ISBN 9781575910352 and ISBN 1575910357.