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Melissa Sihra, M. Sihra - Women in Irish Drama, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

Women in Irish Drama

A Century of Authorship and Representation

Av Melissa Sihra, M. Sihra

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Featuring original essays by leading scholars in the field, this book explores the immense legacy of women playwrights in Irish theatre since the beginning of theTwentieth 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 engage with representations of women by a selection of male playwrights in order to re-evaluate familiar contexts and traditions in Irish drama. Features a Foreword by Marina Carr and a useful appendix of Irish women playwrights and their works.
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MELISSA SIHRA is a Lecturer in Drama Studies at Queen's University Belfast, UK. She is a dramaturg and has worked at the Abbey Theatre and on productions of Irish plays in the USA.

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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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