The French have Jerry Lewis, the Germans have David Hasselhoff, and now it's the Britons' turn to make the case for an American. Not that Sylvia Plath needs the help, although her status as the archetypal Wronged Woman has managed both to canonize and to ghettoize her. Still two productions that had their genesis across the Atlantic are each paying...
ROBERT SHAW, the British producer and director, has rather unusual taste in vacation reading. While most of us fill our overnight bags with Stieg Larsson novels, fashionable memoirs or local guide books, Mr. Shaw found himself some years ago lazing about in his Dubrovnik hotel reading the poetry of Sylvia Plath. A Web site he'd chanced on mentioned...
The fall season at 59E59 Theaters will include ''Three Women,'' the only play by Sylvia Plath, above, in a production by the London company Inside Intelligence. Plath wrote ''Three Women'' as a radio play, and it was performed on BBC radio in 1962, the year before she committed suicide. The production was first presented in London in 2008. 59E59...
Sylvia Plath (27. oktober 1932 - 11. februar 1963) var en amerikansk forfatter og lyriker. Hun er mest kendt for sine digte og romanen The Bell Jar (dansk titel: Glasklokken).
Plath blev født i Boston af en tysk far og en østrigsk-amerikansk mor. Hun var et begavet barn, og som otteårig publicerede hun sit første digt. Hun skrev både romaner, noveller, digte og essays. Hendes mest kendte værk, romanen Glasklokken, var en semi-biografisk beretning om hendes kamp mod klinisk depression. Plath var fra 1956 til 1963 gift med digteren Ted Hughes, som hun mødte, da hun studerede i Cambridge. De blev dog skilt inden hendes selvmord. Sylvia Plath fik to børn. Hun udgav digtsamlingen Ariel og romanen glasklokken kort før sit selvmord i 1963, og opnåede en nærmest ikonagtig status i visse miljøer. Fold ud