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Women in Irish Drama: A Century of Authorship and Representation
Melissa Sihra (Editor)
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Description for Women in Irish Drama: A Century of Authorship and Representation
Paperback. Featuring original essays by leading scholars, this book, now available in paperback for the first time, explores the immense legacy of women playwrights in Irish theatre since the beginning of the twentieth century and engages with representations of women by a selection of male playwrights to re-evaluate familiar traditions. Editor(s): Sihra, Melissa. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Featuring original essays by leading scholars in the field, this book explores the immense legacy of women playwrights in Irish theatre since the beginning of theTwentieth 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 engage with representations of women by a selection of male playwrights in order to re-evaluate familiar contexts and traditions in Irish drama. Features a Foreword by Marina Carr and a useful appendix of Irish women playwrights and their works. ... Read more
Featuring original essays by leading scholars in the field, this book explores the immense legacy of women playwrights in Irish theatre since the beginning of theTwentieth 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 engage with representations of women by a selection of male playwrights in order to re-evaluate familiar contexts and traditions in Irish drama. Features a Foreword by Marina Carr and a useful appendix of Irish women playwrights and their works. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
Performance Interventions
Number of Pages
241
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230577916
SKU
V9780230577916
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Ref
99-15
About Melissa Sihra (Editor)
MARINA CARR Playwright JANELLE REINELT Professor of Performance Studies, Warwick University, UK PAUL MURPHY Lecturer in Drama Studies, Queen's University Belfast, UK VELMA O'DONOGHUE GREENE Doctoral candidate, School of Drama, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland CATHY LEENEY Lecturer in Drama, University College Dublin, Ireland LISA FITZPATRICK Lecturer in Drama, University of Ulster at Magee, UK ANNA MCMULLAN Chair of Drama, Queen's ... Read more
Reviews for Women 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 patriarchal structures... [an] important volume.' - Karen Fricker, Contemporary Theatre Review ... Read more