Lawler’s Demythologizing of the Doll: Kid Stakes and Other Times

Abstract

Reads The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll in light of its two anterior plays, Kid Stakes and Other Times, arguing that these works clarify a number of ambiguities critics have noted about Doll's denouement.

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Published 1 May 1986 in Volume 12 No. 3. Subjects: Critical reception, Drafts & revisions, Dramatic techniques, Ray Lawler.

Cite as: Hooton, Joy W.. ‘Lawler’s Demythologizing of the Doll: Kid Stakes and Other Times.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 12, no. 3, 1986, doi: 10.20314/als.0cf96a7e40.