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BL
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1001617
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b755987
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| Title & Author
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Women in Irish drama : : a century of authorship and representation /\ edited by Melissa Sihra ; foreword by Marina Carr.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2007.
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| Series Statement
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Performance interventions
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| Page. NO
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xix, 241 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0230006477
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: 9780230006478
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| Notes
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A collection of essays about Irish women playwrights.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Figures at the window / Melissa Sihra -- Woman as fantasy object in Lady Gregory's historical tragedies / Paul Murphy -- Writing women for a modern Ireland: Geraldine Cummins and Susanne Day / Velma O'Donoghue Greene -- The space outside: images of women in plays by Eva Gore-Booth and Dorothy Macardle / Cathy Leeney -- Taking their own road: the female protagonists in three Irish plays by women / Lisa Fitzpatrick -- From matron to matrix: gender, authority and (dis)embodiment in Beckett's theatre / Anna McMullan -- Beyond the pale: neglected Northern Irish women playwrights, Alice Milligan, Helen Waddell and Patricia O'Connor / Mark Phelan -- Meta-physicality: women characters in the plays of Frank McGuinness / Eamonn Jordan -- Dead women walking: the female body as a site for war in Stewart Parker's Northern star / Rachel O'Riordan -- Women in rooms: landscapes of the missing in Anne Devlin's Ourselves alone / Enrica Cerquoni -- Staging the liminal in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's Dún na mBan trí thine (The fort of the fairy women is on fire) / Anthony Roche -- Sick, dying, dead, dispersed: the evanescence of patriarchy in contemporary Irish women's theatre / Brian Singleton -- The house of woman and the plays of Marina Carr / Melissa Sihra -- Afterword: The act and the word / Olwen Fouéré.
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English drama-- Irish authors-- History and criticism.
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English drama-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
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English drama-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Feminism and literature-- Ireland-- History-- 20th century.
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Women and literature-- Ireland-- History-- 20th century.
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Women in literature.
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Drama
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English drama-- Irish authors.
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English drama-- Women authors.
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English drama.
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Feminism and literature.
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Frau
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Women and literature.
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Women in literature.
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Engels.
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Toneelstukken.
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Vrouwen.
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Ierland.
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Ireland.
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Irland
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| Dewey Classification
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822/.91099287
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| LC Classification
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PR8789.W58 2007
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18.05bcl
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HG 290rvk
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HN 1261rvk
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| Added Entry
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Sihra, Melissa,1973-
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