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Life Without Instruction: [a Play] by Clark, Sally, 1953- is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Life Without Instruction: [a Play] about?

<p><i>Life Without Instruction</i> is based on a true story and a real trial. Artemesia Gentileschiâs father, the late-Renaissance painter Orazio Gentileschi, takes the unusual step of having his daughter trained in the art of painting under the instruction of his friend, Agostino Tassi. Tassi rapes Artemesia, and is taken to trial by both Artemesia and Orazio. As usual, the person really on trial in this rape case is the woman, who is publically humiliated and forced to endure the torture of thumb screws. Yet through this ordeal Artemesia not only emerges as a strong and independent woman: She comes into her own as a talented painter. Finally defying the manipulations of the men who had taken it upon themselves to orchestrate her life for her, Artemesia defiantly says to one of them-her father-'Iâm not your little girl, anymore. Iâm something else. Something truly unspeakable. An artist!' Sally Clark describes <i>Life Without Instruction</i> as 'a revenge play.'</p><p>Cast of three women and five men.</p>

Author

Clark, Sally, 1953-

Publisher

Vancouver: Talonbooks

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780889223479

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities