Borrowing another voice or the Cyrano complex

The voices in Tina Howe’s theatre run the gamut of register, from inarticulate or animal sounds to impassioned monologues and quoted verse. This article focuses on one of the playwright’s greatest successes, Painting Churches (1983) in order to investigate the vocal identity of the text through the...

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Main Author: Julie Vatain
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Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2013-06-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/3059
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