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Article: Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning.(Review) (book review)

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BRITZOLAKIS, Christina. Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999. 250 pp. $60.00.

For those readers who may have missed what has happened in Plath studies during the past several decades, Christina Britzolakis's book is an apt starting place. Information is presented succinctly but authoritatively, seemingly without prejudice as to whose biography is "right" and whose "wrong"; and since much of the interest in the lives of both Sylvia Plath and her recently deceased husband, Ted Hughes, remains biographical, Britzolakis's attention to the parade of extant biographies is well taken.

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