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Spender asserts that critics like Virginia Woolf, who condemned him and others for writing too much out of a sense of public duty, "failed to see that public events had swamped our personal lives and usurped our personal experience...
...time (right up till now) when women were excluded automatically and without question from the church, the state, and the universities. This is one reason why women's contributions play little part in the reality that is presented to us. "I would venture to guess," writes Virginia Woolf in A Room of One's Own, "that Anon, who wrote to many poems without signing them, was often a woman...
...learn about in school serve only to reinforce the notion that these are all that exist so that not until the recent wave of scholarship about women have we begun to be aware of the rich heritage of women's activities that has been erased from history. So, Virginia Woolf had no idea how many women had been writing when she imagined for the fate of Shakespeare's "wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith" who, like her brother, loved the theater and wanted to act and write...
...ways glances that belie his conscience-free self-confidence. And because the script faithfully represents the tensions created by the times rather than playing on the assumptions of the sixties, this psychological guerrilla war still rings true and poignant, whereas the same theme in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, with its dependence on now defunct fascination with 'the games people play' and the hypocritical humanism of academe, now seems dated...
...doubles and infidelity in the suburbs. Another effort, Courting by Sue Costello, promises to be a tennis player's version of Fear of Flying. But the best stories of the mixed-doubles scene might better be told by a writer like Edward Albee of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, who could chronicle the explosive marital tensions of the game. "What we'll soon need around here," says California's celebrated tennis pro Vic Braden, "is mixed-doubles counselors, not marriage counselors...