Screen LibraryWomen in Irish drama A century of authorship and representation /
'What makes this book a stimulating and enlightening read is how thoroughly many of the individual authors combine the goals of both uncovering and interrogating plays by and images of women, and placing these in their cultural contexts for the purposes of the book's sustained critique of...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Performance interventions |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230801455 |
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'What makes this book a stimulating and enlightening read is how thoroughly many of the individual authors combine the goals of both uncovering and interrogating plays by and images of women, and placing these in their cultural contexts for the purposes of the book's sustained critique of patriarchal structures... [an] important volume.' - Karen Fricker, Contemporary Theatre Review '... the book addresses a longstanding critical blind spot, includes a helpful appendix of Irish women playwrights dating from 1663, and points the way forward to a number of fruitful areas for future research.' - |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2007. |
| Carrier Form: | 264 p. |
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9780230006478 9780230801455 : 0230801455 : |
| CLC: | I562.073 |
| Contents: | Foreword-- M.Carr Preface-- J.Reinelt Introduction: Figures at the Window-- M.Sihra Interchapter I-- C.Leeney Woman as Fantasy Object in Lady Gregory's Historical Tragedies-- P.Murphy Writing Women for a Modern Ireland: Geraldine Cummins and Susanne Day-- V.O'Donoghue Greene The Spaces Outside: Images of Women in Plays by Eva Gore-Booth and Dorothy Macardle-- C.Leeney Taking Their Own Road: The Female Protagonist in Three Irish Plays by Women': L.Fitzpatrick Interchapter II-- M.Sihra From Matron to Matrix: Gender and (Dis)embodiment in Beckett's Theatre-- A.McMullan Beyond the Pale: Neglecte |