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. INDICE: Foreword; M.Carr - Preface; J.Reinelt - Introduction: Figures at the Window; M.Sihra - Interchapter I: 1900-1939; 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: 1940-1969; M.Sihra - From Matron to Matrix: Gender and (Dis)embodiment in Beckett's Theatre; A.McMullan - Beyondthe Pale: Neglected Northern Irish Women Playwrights, Alice Milligan, Helen Wadell and Patricia O'Connor; M.Phelan - Meta-physicality: Women Characters in the Plays of Frank McGuinness; E.Jordan - Dead Women Walking: The Female Body as a Site for War in Stewart Parker's Northern Star; R.O'Riordan - Interchapter III: 1970-2005; M.Sihra - Women in Rooms: Landscapes of the Missing in Anne Devlin's Ourselves Alone; E.Cerquoni - Liminal Spaces in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's Dún na mBan Trí Thine (The Fort of the Fairy Women is on Fire); A.Roche - Sick,Dying, Dead, Dispersed: The Evanescence of Patriarchy in Contemporary Irish Women's Theatre; B.Singleton - Marina Carr's Landscapes of Play and Possibility; M.Sihra - Afterword: The Act and the Word; O.Fouéré - Appendix: List of Irish Women Playwrights and their Key Works - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57791-6
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha Publicación: 29/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés