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A proposal for dissertation on Towards a Gestic Feminist Dramaturgy

Close Reading, Description, Performative Writing, Performance Ethnography

Table of Contents

I. Prelude

II. Introduction

III. Gestic Feminist Dramaturgy: Outline of a Working Methodology

IV. Research Question and Methodology

V. Literature Review

VI. Chapter Outline

VII. Notes

VIII. Bibliography

In Naomi Wallace's One Flea Spare, set in plague-ridden 17^th Century London, a mad servant girl named Morse, an escaped conscripted sailor named Bunce, and extremely and an elderly wealthy couple named Sir William and Lady Darcy Snelgrave, are trapped in a quarantined house together. Forced into an involuntary confinement, they wait out the disease by wiping the walls with vinegar and engaging in emotional and physical torture, sometimes playful and sometimes deadly serious. Near the climax of the play, Darcy, who herself has been horribly scarred in a fire when she was much younger, asks to see Bunce's wound, an unhealed hole in his side.

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