Women in Irish drama : a century of authorship and representation /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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| Series: | Performance interventions.
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| Online Access: | Publisher description Table of contents only Contributor biographical information |
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.