Women in Irish Drama - $81.00 - Sihra, Melissa (EDT); Carr, Marina (FRW) - 9780230006478

Women in Irish Drama
A Century of Authorship And Representation
Sihra, Melissa (EDT)
Carr, Marina (FRW)
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BOOK SUMMARY
This volume explores the immense legacy of women playwrights in Irish theater since the beginning of the twentieth century.

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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Featuring original essays by leading scholars in the field, this bookexplores the immense legacy of women playwrights in Irish theatre since the beginning of the twentieth century. Chapters consider the intersecting contexts of gender, sexuality and the body in order to investigate the broader cultural, political and historical implications of representing 'woman' on the stage.In addition, a number of essays will engage with representations of women by a selection of male playwrights in order to re-evaluate familiar contexts and traditions in Irish drama. It features a foreword by Marina Carr and a useful appendix of Irish women playwrights and their works.

AUTHOR BIO
MELISSA SIHRA is a Lecturer in Drama Studies at Queen's University Belfast, UK. She is a dramaturg and has worked at the Abbey Theatre and on productions of Irish plays in the USA.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword--M.Carr * Preface--J.Reinelt * Introduction: 'Figures at the Window'--M.Sihra * Interchapter * 'Another Twisting of the Rope'--A.Fogarty * 'Woman as Fantasy Object in J.M. Synge's When the Moon Has Set'--P.Murphy * 'The Spaces Outside: Images of Women in Plays by Eva Gore-Booth and Dorothy Macardle'--C.Leeney * 'Tragical Comedies: The Female Picaro in Three Irish Plays by Women': L.Fitzpatrick * Interchaper * 'From Matron to Matrix: Gender and (Dis)embodiment in Beckett's Theatre'--A.McMullan * 'Liminal Spaces in Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's Dun na mBan Tri Thine (The Fort of the Fairy Women is on Fire)--A.Roche * 'Dead Women Walking: The Female as a Site for War in Stewart Parker's Northern Star'--R.O'Riordan * 'The Loose Theatre of Margaretta D'Arcy: Political Protest and Imprisonment as Performance'--L.Hope * 'Meta-physicalities: Performative Women in the Plays of Frank McGuinness'--E.Jordan * Interchapter * 'Sick, Dying, Dead and Buried: The Evanescence of Patriarchy in Contemporary Irish Women's Theatre'--B.Singleton * 'Women in Rooms: Anne Devlin's Ourselves Alone and After Easter'--E.Cerquoni * 'Beyond the Pale: Northern Irish Playwrights Helen Wadell, S.F. Scott, Patricia O'Connor and Marie Jones'--M.Phelan * 'Nature Noble or Ignoble: Woman, Home and Spaces Beyond in the Theatre of Marina Carr'--M.Sihra * Appendix: List of Irish women playwrights and their key works * Index Foreword--M.Carr * Preface--J.Reinelt * Introduction: 'Figures at the Window'--M.Sihra * Interchapter * 'Another Twisting of the Rope'--A.Fogarty * 'Woman as Fantasy Object in J.M. Synge's When the Moon Has Set'--P.Murphy * 'The Spaces Outside: Images of Women in Plays by Eva Gore-Booth and Dorothy Macardle'--C.Leeney * 'Tragical Comedies: The Female Picaro in Three Irish Plays by Women': L.Fitzpatrick * Interchaper * 'From Matron to Matrix: Gender and (Dis)embodiment in Beckett's Theatre'--A.McMullan * 'Liminal Spaces in Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's Dun na mBan Tri Thine (The Fort of the Fairy Women is on Fire)--A.Roche * 'Dead Women Walking: The Female as a Site for War in Stewart Parker's Northern Star'--R.O'Riordan * 'The Loose Theatre of Margaretta D'Arcy: Political Protest and Imprisonment as Performance'--L.Hope * 'Meta-physicalities: Performative Women in the Plays of Frank McGuinness'--E.Jordan * Interchapter * 'Sick, Dying, Dead and Buried: The Evanescence of Patriarchy in Contemporary Irish Women's Theatre'--B.Singleton * 'Women in Rooms: Anne Devlin's Ourselves Alone and After Easter'--E.Cerquoni * 'Beyond the Pale: Northern Irish Playwrights Helen Wadell, S.F. Scott, Patricia O'Connor and Marie Jones'--M.Phelan * 'Nature Noble or Ignoble: Woman, Home and Spaces Beyond in the Theatre of Marina Carr'--M.Sihra * Appendix: List of Irish women playwrights and their key works * Index

MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0230006477
ISBN(13-digit): 9780230006478
Dewey Decimal: 822/.91099287
Library of Congress: 2006047822
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 241

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