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The Background and the Characteristics of Feminist Drama Jooeun Park (Shingu University) Feminist drama is the play by women, for women, of women. Feminist playwrights make the play out of women's ordinary experience in order that people can easily feel the female oppression. In feminist drama, women attempt to free themselves from their subordinate status in the patriarchal society, thus allowing them to seek their identity outside of those confines. In the second chapter, I studied roots and the background of feminist drama. Living Theatre, Off-Off-Broadway Group, Resident Theatres, Radical Theatre and Open Theatre have much effect on birth of feminist drama. In the third chapter, there are several characteristics in feminist drama, that is, the pursuit of female identity, the absence of men, the bonding of women, collective scripting and improvisation, the mother-daughter relationship, naming, transformation and domestic interior settings. These are presented in many plays. In conclusion, feminist drama focuses on the process of achieving female autonomous self with eight characteristics.