Performing the Body in Irish Theatre

1. Introduction: A ‘Sense of the Body’

Bernadette Sweeney

2. The Absent Body? Performing Tradition
Bernadette Sweeney

3. The Inanimate Body: The Great Hunger

Bernadette Sweeney

4. The Savage Body: The Saxon Shore

Bernadette Sweeney

5. The Dancing Body: Dancing at Lughnasa

Bernadette Sweeney

6. The Troubled Body: At the Black Pig’s Dyke

Bernadette Sweeney

7. The Indeterminate Body: Low in the Dark

Bernadette Sweeney

8. The Present Body? Evolving Tradition
Bernadette Sweeney

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, Environment, general, Literature, general, Theatre History, Twentieth-Century Literature