Women in Irish Drama

A Century of Authorship and Representation

By: Melissa Sihra

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Hardcover | 1 April 2007 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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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.'

- Theatre Research International

'This volume undoubtedly fulfils its declared intent of widening the debate concerning the representation of women on the Irish stage... Its most striking achievement is the exposure of little-known work by female playwrights and the appended directory is an inspired move which provides an invaluable resource.'

- Margaret Maxwell, Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies

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Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Figures at the Window
C.Leeney
Woman as Fantasy Object in Lady Gregory's Historical Tragedies
Writing Women for a Modern Ireland: Geraldine Cummins and Susanne Day
The Spaces Outside: Images of Women in Plays by Eva Gore-Booth and Dorothy Macardle
Taking Their Own Road: The Female Protagonist in Three Irish Plays by Women'
M.Sihra
From Matron to Matrix: Gender and (Dis)embodiment in Beckett's Theatre
Beyond the Pale: Neglected Northern Irish Women Playwrights, Alice Milligan, Helen Wadell and Patricia O'Connor
Meta-physicality: Women Characters in the Plays of Frank McGuinness
Dead Women Walking: The Female Body as a Site for War in Stewart Parker'sNorthern Star
M.Sihra
Women in Rooms: Landscapes of the Missing in Anne Devlin'sOurselves Alone
Liminal Spaces in Eilis Ni Dhuibhne'sDun na mBan Tri Thine(The Fort of the Fairy Women is on Fire)
Sick, Dying, Dead, Dispersed: The Evanescence of Patriarchy in Contemporary Irish Women's Theatre
Marina Carr's Landscapes of Play and Possibility
Afterword: The Act and the Word
Appendix: List of Irish Women Playwrights and their Key Works
Index
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