Maria Irene Fornes and Her Critics

This first book dedicated to US-Cuban playwright/director Maria Irene Fornes is a lucid theoretical historical and production-oriented study of Fornes'' published works and their critical legacy. Kent argues that most critics including a range of theatre feminists have yet to fully explicate the incisive social critique presented in Fornes'' work. Examining the complex relationships between Fornes'' aesthetic innovations and her unconventional social politics Kent presents a comprehensive contextualized study of Fornes work and the critics'' response.