The Betty Lambert Reader - Softcover

Lambert, Betty

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887548628 ISBN 13: 9780887548628

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press, 2007

Synopsis

A collection of writings by seminal Canadian playwright Betty Lambert. With an introduction by Cynthia Zimmerman, this collection also includes radio plays, stage plays, short stories, and excerpts from a novel.

About this title

About the Authors

Cynthia Zimmerman has been a highly regarded commentator on Canadian playwriting and on the voice of women on the Canadian stage for her whole career at Glendon College, York University, where she is a professor in the English department. Previously book review editor of the international journal Modern Drama and a member of its advisory board, Zimmerman has authored or co-authored a number of books, including Playwriting Women: Female Voices in English Canada. She has produced many articles, chapters, and public papers. She also edited the successful anthology, Taking the Stage, for Playwrights Canada Press.

Betty Lambert was a renowned Canadian playwright and English professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her most famous works were the children's play The Riddle Machine, the radio play Grasshopper Hill, the comedy Sqrieux-de-Dieu, and the dramas Under the Skin and Jennie's Story, which was adapted into the film Heart of the Sun in 1999. Betty Lambert passed away in 1983. (2011-02-08)

Edition details

• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887548628
• ISBN 13: 9780887548628
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Zimmerman Cynthia