Publisher's Synopsis
First Published in 1997. Contemporary Theatre Studies is a book series of special interest to everyone involved in theatre. It consists of monographs on influential figures, studies of movements and ideas in theatre, as well as primary material consisting of theatre-related documents, performing editions of plays in English, and English translations of plays from various vital theatre traditions worldwide. Augustine (Big Hysteria) by Anna Furse, first produced in Plymouth in1991, is one of the most important plays in the new feminist theatre of hysteria.
