Sihra, Melissa
Women in Irish Drama
1. Introduction: Figures at the Window
Melissa Sihra
2. Woman as Fantasy Object in Lady Gregory’s Historical Tragedies
Paul Murphy
3. Writing Women for a Modern Ireland: Geraldine Cummins and Susanne Day
Velma O’Donoghue Greene
4. The Space Outside: Images of Women in Plays by Eva Gore-Booth and Dorothy Macardle
Cathy Leeney
5. Taking their Own Road: The Female Protagonists in Three Irish Plays by Women
Lisa Fitzpatrick
6. From Matron to Matrix: Gender, Authority and (Dis)embodiment in Beckett’s Theatre
Anna McMullan
7. Beyond the Pale: Neglected Northern Irish Women Playwrights, Alice Milligan, Helen Waddell and Patricia O’Connor
Mark Phelan
8. Meta-Physicality: Women Characters in the Plays of Frank McGuinness
Eamonn Jordan
9. Dead Women Walking: The Female Body as a Site for War in Stewart Parker’s
Rachel O’Riordan
10. Women in Rooms: Landscapes of the Missing in Anne Devlin’s
Enrica Cerquoni
11. Staging the Liminal in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s
Anthony Roche
12. Sick, Dying, Dead, Dispersed: The Evanescence of Patriarchy in Contemporary Irish Women’s Theatre
Brian Singleton
13. The House of Woman and the Plays of Marina Carr
Melissa Sihra
Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, Theatre History, British and Irish Literature, Literature, general, Gender Studies, History of Britain and Ireland
- Editor
- Sihra, Melissa
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2007
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Performance Interventions
- Page amount
- 260 pages
- Category
- Art, Art History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230801455
- Printed ISBN
- 978-0-230-57791-6