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Cristina Mouron Figueroa (Dept of English and Germanic Philology at University of Santiago de Compostela) and Begona Crespo Garcia (Assistant Professor, Dept of English, University of La Coruna, Spain) are working on this sort of thing (especially the linguistic features of women's speech) though I'm sure a lot of people are involved in different aspects of female representation. Ruth Evans at University of Wales, Cardiff, has done a lot and would be a good person to contact. Best wishes John McGavin On Mon, 19 Jan 1998 14:23:01 +0000 Mario Longtin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >Greetings! > > >I'm in the process of putting together my dissertation proposal. I > >was wondering if anybody out there knows if this has been done > >before. I would like to do an extensive character analysis of > >female characters in UK cycle drama. I did one on Eve a few years > >ago, and discovered that there were regional differences which > >reflect, I thought, a cultural bias toward women: the Cornish > >creates Eve as being Adam's peer, for instance. Beyond the basic > >texts themselves, is anyone aware of any other work in this area? > > >Thanks, > > >Tad Atkinson > >Ball State University > > There was a book published in 1996 that was dealing with the > character of Mary in French and English drama : title : Contrary > Marys in French and English Medieval drama. I don't remember the name > of the author (I'm sure it's a woman). If you read French, there are > the two articles of Jonathan Beck "Images de la femme dans le theatre > medieval", in Le theatre populaire au Moyen Age et a la Renaissance, > Barcelone, 1988. and "Sexe et genre dans l'hagiographie medievale : > Les mysteres a saintes", in Le Moyen Francais, Montreal, 19 (1986), > pp. 18-33. > > Mario Longtin > PhD Student > University of Edinburgh