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"Perhaps prompted by an interviewer's question (Beattie 292), American playwright Marsha Norman has described 'trapped girls' as an important theme of her work, one that stems from her own childhood experiences growing up in a fundamentalist Christian family: 'I saw myself as a trapped girl as a kid . . . trapped in this evangelical household full of violence' (Myers). Her mother, a fundamentalist Methodist, had a violent temper and strong religious beliefs. She forbade her children to watch television because of its perceived sinfulness, so Marsha spent much of her childhood reading. 'I had a very isolated childhood, read a lot, played a lot and wasn't allowed to frown,' Norman has said (Brustein 184). She often felt trapped in a hostile environment and later recalled longing to be kidnapped so that she could escape her family. Norman identifies the theme of the trapped girl not only in the character of Arlie in her first play, Getting Out, and Jessie in 'night, Mother, but also in Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden, Celie Johnson in The Color Purple, and Francesca Johnson in The Bridges of Madison County"--

Norman, Marsha --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Norman, Marsha --- Criticism and interpretation --- Women and literature --- United States --- History --- 20th century

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American drama --- Theater --- History and criticism. --- History --- American literature --- Drama --- anno 1900-1999 --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- United States --- Guare, John --- Criticism and interpretation --- Kushner, Tony --- Mann, Emily --- Nelson, Richard --- Norman, Marsha --- Rabe, David William --- Wasserstein, Wendy --- Wilson, August --- Howe, Tina --- Vogel, Paula Anne --- THEATRE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) AMERICAIN --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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This book explores the way in which doubling takes place in several novels, films, and dramas, primarily focusing on modern drama and exploring how five Greek myths – Oedipus, Narcissus, Dionysus, Orestes, and Demeter – inform the literature. Taking a psychological/mythical approach, this book explores the inner divisions that lead to boundary loss and the search for the self that may lead to boundaries found. The contention of the book is that the oedipal search for self has been replaced in modern literature by individuals caught up in a narcissistic culture. Katherine H. Burkman explores plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Henrik Ibsen, Eugene O'Neill, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Marsha Norman, and Will Eno.

Philosophy --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Sociology of culture --- Personality development --- Didactics of the arts --- Film --- Theatrical science --- Linguistics --- Literature --- History --- filmgeschiedenis --- performances (kunst) --- psychologie --- sociale psychologie --- geletterdheid --- theater --- cultuur --- filosofie --- geschiedenis --- literatuur --- culturele antropologie --- persoonlijkheidsleer --- persoonlijkheidsontwikkeling --- Sophocles --- Narcissus [Mythological character] --- Dionysus [Mythological character] --- Demeter [Mythological character] --- Oedipus [Mythological character] --- Aeschylus --- Ibsen, Henrik --- Euripides --- O'Neill, Eugene --- Eno, Will --- Orestes [Mythologische figuur] --- Beckett, Samuel --- Shepard, Sam --- Pinter, Harold --- Mamet, David --- Norman, Marsha