Sally Clark

Linda Morra (Bishop's University)

Ed. by Linda Morra, Bishop's University, Moira Day, University of Saskatchewan
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 26 Jul 1953
Activity 1973-ongoing

Places

Born in Canada
Active in Canada

Activities

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Playwright / Dramatist

Resources

Clark's Works

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Canadian playwright, novelist, painter, director, and filmmaker, Sally Joan Clark (b. 1953) was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Joan Napier (Ross) Clark and Donald McGilveray, a lawyer. Clark is renowned for work that showcases robust and spirited female characters embroiled in challenging situations that sometimes seem to cast them as victims, madwomen, or reprobates. As Richard Knowles observes, her “most provocative work has rewritten the stories of historical women” (2004, 128). These female heroines find themselves in untenable or irrational dilemmas because of “patriarchal systems”, as critic Jerry Wasserman observes, which are administered with a “nightmarish logic” (2001). Clark’s plays have thus become distinguished for their black humor and comic energy,…

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Citation: Morra, Linda. "Sally Clark". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 February 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5348, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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