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Rediscovering Female Voice and Authority: The Revival of Female Artists in Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles

The existing body of criticism on Wendy Wasserstein's play The Heidi Chronicles largely ignores the significance of the female artists and paintings Heidi Holland names in the prologues that begin both acts of the play. Likewise, critics only briefly address Heidi s profession as an art historian, giving little thought to the meaning of her career choice. Recent feminist interpretations of Wasserstein's play dismiss the significance of Heidi's profession as an art historian because, as critics say, her profession and intellectual achievements "are of minor importance and have little or no effect on her or anyone else's life."1 Jan Balakian sees Heidi's profession as typifying the ...

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