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Women in Irish drama[electronic resource] :a century of authorship and representation /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
杜威分類號:	822/.91099287
書名/作者:	Women in Irish drama : a century of authorship and representation // edited by Melissa Sihra ; foreword by Marina Carr.
其他作者:	Sihra, Melissa,
出版者:	Basingstoke [England] ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2007.
面頁冊數:	xix, 241 p. : : ill.
附註:	A collection of essays about Irish women playwrights.
叢書名:	Performance interventions
標題:	English drama - Irish authors
標題:	English drama - Women authors
標題:	English drama - History and criticism. - 20th century
標題:	Women in literature.
標題:	Women and literature - History - 20th century. - Ireland
標題:	Feminism and literature - History - 20th century. - Ireland
ISBN:	9780230801455
ISBN:	0230801455
書目註:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
內容註:	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)embodimentin 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'sOurselves alone / Enrica Cerquoni -- Staging the liminal in âEilâis NâiDhuibhne's Dâun na mBan trâi thine (The fort of the fairy women is onfire) / Anthony Roche -- Sick, dying, dead, dispersed: the evanescenceof patriarchy in contemporary Irish women's theatre / Brian Singleton -- The house of woman and the plays of Marina Carr / Melissa Sihra -- Afterword: The actand the word / Olwen Fouâerâe.
摘要、提要註:	This volume of essays explores the fascinating and immensely rich legacy of Irish women playwrights throughout the twentieth century and opens up essential dialogue on the politics of authorship, representationand the 'canon' of Irish theatre. Ideological, historical and culturalissues are discussed in relation to the performance of woman, gender, sexuality and the body on the Irish stage in plays by women and, to a lesser extent, by men. An appendix lists over two hundred Irish women playwrights and their works, contesting the traditional concept of Irish theatre as primarily a site ofmale authorship and authority. In this book unknown territories are discovered and familiar ones arerenegotiated, as the histories of Irish theatre are expanded, challenged and critiqued. Women in Irish Drama opens a space for previously forgotten or silenced voices and marks an exciting new beginning for the way in whichIrish theatre is considered in the twenty-first century.
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Women in Irish drama[electronic resource] :a century of authorship and representation /
Women in Irish dramaa century of authorship and representation /[electronic resource] :edited by Melissa Sihra ; foreword by Marina Carr. - Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2007. - xix, 241 p. :ill. - 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)embodimentin 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'sOurselves alone / Enrica Cerquoni -- Staging the liminal in âEilâis NâiDhuibhne's Dâun na mBan trâi thine (The fort of the fairy women is onfire) / Anthony Roche -- Sick, dying, dead, dispersed: the evanescenceof patriarchy in contemporary Irish women's theatre / Brian Singleton -- The house of woman and the plays of Marina Carr / Melissa Sihra -- Afterword: The actand the word / Olwen Fouâerâe.

This volume of essays explores the fascinating and immensely rich legacy of Irish women playwrights throughout the twentieth century and opens up essential dialogue on the politics of authorship, representationand the 'canon' of Irish theatre. Ideological, historical and culturalissues are discussed in relation to the performance of woman, gender, sexuality and the body on the Irish stage in plays by women and, to a lesser extent, by men. An appendix lists over two hundred Irish women playwrights and their works, contesting the traditional concept of Irish theatre as primarily a site ofmale authorship and authority. In this book unknown territories are discovered and familiar ones arerenegotiated, as the histories of Irish theatre are expanded, challenged and critiqued. Women in Irish Drama opens a space for previously forgotten or silenced voices and marks an exciting new beginning for the way in whichIrish theatre is considered in the twenty-first century.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230801455

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230801455doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

371193
English drama
--Irish authorsIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

336502
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR8789 / .W58 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 822/.91099287

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