Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre

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  • Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre Book Detail

  • Author : Shonagh Hill
  • Release Date : 2019-08-29
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Genre : Drama
  • Pages : 269
  • ISBN 13 : 1108618278
  • File Size : 2,2 MB
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Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre by Shonagh Hill PDF Summary

Book Description: The rich legacy of women's contributions to Irish theatre is traditionally viewed through a male-dominated literary canon and mythmaking, thus arguably silencing their work. In this timely book, Shonagh Hill proposes a feminist genealogy which brings new perspectives to women's mythmaking across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The performances considered include the tableaux vivants performed by the Inghinidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of Ireland), plays written by Alice Milligan, Maud Gonne, Lady Augusta Gregory, Eva Gore-Booth, Mary Devenport O'Neill, Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy, Paula Meehan, Edna O'Brien and Marina Carr, as well as plays translated, adapted and performed by Olwen Fouéré. The theatrical work discussed resists the occlusion of women's cultural engagement that results from confinement to idealised myths of femininity. This is realised through embodied mythmaking: a process which exposes how bodies bear the consequences of these myths, while refusing to accept the female body as passive bearer of inscription through the assertion of a creative female corporeality.

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Women in Irish Drama

Women in Irish Drama

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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 t