Comic Everywoman in Irish Popular Theatre

Political Melodrama, 1890-1925

AvSusanne Colleary

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Del i serien Palgrave Studies in Comedy

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This book is a comprehensive study of comic women in performance as Irish Political Melodrama from 1890 to 1925. Working through a series of workshops, rehearsals and a final performance, Colleary investigates comic identity and female performance through a feminist revisionist lens.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-01-15
Mått:148 x 210 x 13 mm
Vikt:303 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Comedy
Antal sidor:130
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030020071

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Susanne Colleary is a lecturer and theatre practitioner at Sligo Institute of Technology, Ireland, and is an adjunct lecturer at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of Performance and Identity in Irish Stand-Up Comedy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and has published on Irish theatre, stand-up comedy and television satire. She is also a guest reviewer and essayist for Arena Arts Show on RTÉ Radio One.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Popular Theatre in Ireland.- 2. Melodrama and its Discontents.- 3. Comic Women at work in Irish Political Melodrama: The Rule of Three.- 4. Ways of Playing – Ways of Seeing: Comic Women at work in Irish Political Melodrama; A Practice as Research Approach.