Women in Irish drama : a century of authorship and representation

Women in Irish drama : a century of authorship and representation / edited by Melissa Sihra ; foreword by Marina Carr.

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Other Authors: Sihra, Melissa, 1973-, Carr, Marina, 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Series:Performance interventions
Subjects:
English drama > Irish authors > History and criticism.
English drama > Women authors > History and criticism.
English drama > 20th century > History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Women and literature > Ireland > History > 20th century.
Feminism and literature > Ireland > History > 20th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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