عنوان

Women in Irish drama :

0230006477

9780230006478

b755987

Women in Irish drama :

[Book]

a century of authorship and representation /

edited by Melissa Sihra ; foreword by Marina Carr.

New York :

Palgrave Macmillan,

2007.

xix, 241 pages :

illustrations ;

23 cm

Performance interventions

A collection of essays about Irish women playwrights.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Figures at the window / Melissa Sihra -- Woman as fantasy object in Lady Gregory's historical tragedies / Paul Murphy -- Writing women for a modern Ireland: Geraldine Cummins and Susanne Day / Velma O'Donoghue Greene -- The space outside: images of women in plays by Eva Gore-Booth and Dorothy Macardle / Cathy Leeney -- Taking their own road: the female protagonists in three Irish plays by women / Lisa Fitzpatrick -- From matron to matrix: gender, authority and (dis)embodiment in Beckett's theatre / Anna McMullan -- Beyond the pale: neglected Northern Irish women playwrights, Alice Milligan, Helen Waddell and Patricia O'Connor / Mark Phelan -- Meta-physicality: women characters in the plays of Frank McGuinness / Eamonn Jordan -- Dead women walking: the female body as a site for war in Stewart Parker's Northern star / Rachel O'Riordan -- Women in rooms: landscapes of the missing in Anne Devlin's Ourselves alone / Enrica Cerquoni -- Staging the liminal in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's Dún na mBan trí thine (The fort of the fairy women is on fire) / Anthony Roche -- Sick, dying, dead, dispersed: the evanescence of patriarchy in contemporary Irish women's theatre / Brian Singleton -- The house of woman and the plays of Marina Carr / Melissa Sihra -- Afterword: The act and the word / Olwen Fouéré.

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English drama-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

English drama-- Irish authors-- History and criticism.

English drama-- Women authors-- History and criticism.

Feminism and literature-- Ireland-- History-- 20th century.

Women and literature-- Ireland-- History-- 20th century.

Women in literature.

Drama

Engels.

English drama-- Irish authors.

English drama-- Women authors.

English drama.

Feminism and literature.

Frau

Toneelstukken.

Vrouwen.

Women and literature.

Women in literature.

Ierland.

Ireland.

Irland

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