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Sharon Pollock

Sharon Pollock is a playwright, actor, and director from Canada. Her work is highly influential and widely performed in Canada, and she is part of the development of Canadian Theatre in the 20th century. Her best-known plays include Blood Relations and Doc.

Pollock was born in New Brunswick to a physician and a nurse who were unhappily married. In her youth, Pollock was exposed to American musical theater, and took an early interest in drama at school. After getting married in school, Pollock...

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Sharon Pollock Essays

“I Was Born Defective”: What It Means to Be a Woman in Sharon Pollock's Blood Relations Anonymous

Blood Relations

<blockquote>“Regardless of what we might think of our gender, we can only live that gender through the body we have.”</blockquote>

Throughout Sharon Pollock’s play <i>Blood Relations</i>, the plotline focuses on the life of...

Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Pollock’s Blood Relations Similarities and Differences in the Female Leads Cassidy Pirlot College

Blood Relations

A Doll’s House written by Henry Ibsen, a play set in the 1870’s in Norway and Blood Relations written by Sharon Pollock, a play set in the 1890’s in America both have a strong female lead who are faced with situations uncommon today. The...