Abstract
The focus of this article is Sarah Daniels's 1986 play, Neaptide. The action of the play concerns a mother fighting a court case for the custody of her daughter and it is underpinned by use of the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, of which the play provides a substantial revision. Daniels's use of the myth has been criticized as a reworking appliquéd in order to fit the social and political context of the play. However, this article argues that it is only when the source-specific context of Daniels's writing is considered that the extent and nature of Neaptide's strategic re-use of its source text, Chesler's Women and Madness, is revealed.
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