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MAJOR WORKS

Churchill's body of work represents the evolution of the author's own personal and political awareness. Her early radio plays, as she herself has described them, "tended to be about bourgeois middle-class life and the destruction of it." Churchill's emerging feminism is evident in her plays of the 1970s, such as Objections to Sex and Violence, Vinegar Tom (produced with Monstrous Regiment), and Cloud Nine. This last work examines the interconnectedness of sexual, racial, and political repression. The first act presents a Victorian family in colonial Africa; the second act takes place a century later but features the same characters, who have aged only twenty-five years. Actors from the first act assume new roles in the second, crossing racial and gender lines. In the 1980s, Churchill continued to focus on women's issues with works such as Top Girls and Fen, but also began to address other social and political issues. Top...

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1. Introduction
2. Biographical Information
3. Major Works
4. Critical Reception
5. Principal Works
6. Author Commentary
7. Overviews And General Studies
8. Cloud Nine
9. Top Girls
10. Fen
11. Serious Money
12. Further Reading
13. Copyright

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