Irish Women Dramatists

Irish Women Dramatists
Title Irish Women Dramatists PDF eBook
Author Eileen Kearney
Publisher Syracuse University Press
Pages 362
Release 2014-11-12
Genre Drama
ISBN 0815652925

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Irish women dramatists have long faced an uphill challenge in getting the recognition and audience of their male counterparts. There are more female playwrights now than ever before, but they are often ignored by mainstream theatres. Kearney and Headrick strive to shift the spotlight with Irish Women Dramatists. The plays collected in this volume represent a cross-section of the excellent dramatic output of Irish women writing in the twentieth century. In addition to the scripts and biographical introductions, the anthology includes a detailed, critical, annotated essay addressing the development of the Irish theatre throughout this time period, and the place women have artistically carved out for themselves in a traditionally male-dominated theatre industry and dramatic canon. One of the few collections of plays by Irish women, this volume contextualizes the political and sociological climate in which these playwrights developed. As theatre practitioners—actors and directors—as well as scholars, Kearney and Headrick have devoted years of research to discovering and rediscovering the contributions these women have made—and continue to make—in the Irish and world theatre scenes.

Irish Women Playwrights, 1900-1939

Irish Women Playwrights, 1900-1939
Title Irish Women Playwrights, 1900-1939 PDF eBook
Author Cathy Leeney
Publisher Peter Lang
Pages 282
Release 2010
Genre Drama
ISBN 9781433103322

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Irish Women Playwrights 1900-1939 is the first book to examine the plays of five fascinating and creative women, placing their work for theatre in co-relation to suggest a parallel tradition that reframes the development of Irish theatre into the present day. How these playwrights dramatize violence and its impacts in political, social, and personal life is a central concern of this book. Augusta Gregory, Eva Gore-Booth, Dorothy Macardle, Mary Manning, and Teresa Deevy re-model theatrical form, re-structuring action and narrative, and exploring closure as a way of disrupting audience expectation. Their plays create stage spaces and images that expose relationships of power and authority, and invite the audience to see the performance not as illusion, but as framed by the conventions and limits of theatrical representation. Irish Women Playwrights 1900-1939 is suitable for courses in Irish theatre, women in theatre, gender and performance, dramaturgy, and Irish drama in the twentieth century as well as for those interested in women's work in theatre and in Irish theatre in the twentieth century.

Women in Irish Drama

Women in Irish Drama
Title Women in Irish Drama PDF eBook
Author M. Sihra
Publisher Springer
Pages 261
Release 2007-03-14
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0230801455

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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.

British and Irish Women Dramatists Since 1958

British and Irish Women Dramatists Since 1958
Title British and Irish Women Dramatists Since 1958 PDF eBook
Author Trevor R. Griffiths
Publisher
Pages 216
Release 1993
Genre Drama
ISBN

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Woman and Scarecrow

Woman and Scarecrow
Title Woman and Scarecrow PDF eBook
Author Marina Carr
Publisher Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Pages 60
Release 2010
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780822224167

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THE STORY: A passionate woman--mother of eight children and wife to a remorseful husband--now facing death, looks back over her life and asks what could have been. Pathos and bitter humor mix in this powerful play from one of Ireland's leading dramat

Bloomsday

Bloomsday
Title Bloomsday PDF eBook
Author Steven Dietz
Publisher Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Pages 67
Release 2017-09-29
Genre Drama
ISBN 0822235803

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Robert returns to Dublin to reunite with Cait, the woman who captured his heart during a James Joyce literary tour thirty-five years ago. Dancing backwards through time, the older couple retrace their steps to discover their younger selves. Through young Robbie and Caithleen, they relive the unlikely, inevitable events that brought them—only briefly—together. This Irish time-travel love story blends wit, humor, and heartache into a buoyant, moving appeal for making the most of the present before it is past.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre
Title The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre PDF eBook
Author Nicholas Grene
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 952
Release 2016-07-28
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0191016349

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre provides the single most comprehensive survey of the field to be found in a single volume. Drawing on more than forty contributors from around the world, the book addresses a full range of topics relating to modern Irish theatre from the late nineteenth-century to the most recent works of postdramatic devised theatre. Ireland has long had an importance in the world of theatre out of all proportion to the size of the country, and has been home to four Nobel Laureates (Yeats, Shaw, and Beckett; Seamus Heaney, while primarily a poet, also wrote for the stage). This collection begins with the influence of melodrama, and looks at arguably the first modern Irish playwright, Oscar Wilde, before moving into a series of considerations of the Abbey Theatre, and Irish modernism. Arranged chronologically, it explores areas such as women in theatre, Irish-language theatre, and alternative theatres, before reaching the major writers of more recent Irish theatre, including Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, and their successors. There are also individual chapters focusing on Beckett and Shaw, as well as a series of chapters looking at design, acting, and theatre architecture. The book concludes with an extended survey of the critical literature on the field. In each chapter, the author does not simply rehearse accepted wisdom; all of the contributors push the boundaries of their respective fields, so that each chapter is a significant contribution to scholarship in its own right.