Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899–1949

1. Introduction
Paul Murphy

Part I. Peasant Quality and the National Quintessence

2. Dream of the Noble and the Beggarman
Paul Murphy

3. To Live the Things that I before Imagined
Paul Murphy

4. Whatever Rule We may have, We’ll always have Our Tramps and Paupers
Paul Murphy

5. That Ireland which We Dreamed Of
Paul Murphy

Part II. The Woman and its Vicissitudes

6. What Kind of a Living Woman is It that You are at All?
Paul Murphy

7. That a Black Twisty Divil could be Hiding under Such Comeliness
Paul Murphy

8. Sure if I was a Good Wife to Him — that mightn’t be an Easy Job!
Paul Murphy

9. Woman Gives to the State
Paul Murphy

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Theatre History, Performing Arts, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Theatre and Performance Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature