This two-volume edited collection illuminates the valuable
counter-canon of Irish women's playwriting with forty-two essays
written by leading and emerging Irish theatre scholars and
practitioners. Covering three hundred years of Irish theatre
history from 1716 to 2016, it is the most comprehensive study of
plays written by Irish women to date. These short essays provide
both a valuable introduction and innovative analysis of key
playtexts, bringing renewed attention to scripts and writers that
continue to be under-represented in theatre criticism and
performance. Volume One covers plays by Irish women playwrights
written between 1716 to 1992, and seeks to address and redress the
historic absence of Irish female playwrights in theatre histories.
Highlighting the work of nine women playwrights from the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries, as well as thirteen of the twentieth
century's key writers, the chapters in this volume explore such
varied themes as the impact of space and place on identity, women's
strategic use of genre, and theatrical responses to shifts in Irish
politics and culture. CONTRIBUTORS: Conrad Brunstroem, David Clare,
Thomas Conway, Marguerite Corporaal, Mark Fitzgerald, Shirley-Anne
Godfrey, Una Kealy, Sonja Lawrenson, Cathy Leeney, Marc Mac
Lochlainn, Kate McCarthy, Fiona McDonagh, Deirdre McFeely, Megan W.
Minogue, Ciara Moloney, Justine Nakase, Patricia O'Beirne, Kevin
O'Connor, Ciara O'Dowd, Cliona O Gallchoir, Anna Pilz, Emilie Pine,
Ruud van den Beuken, Feargal Whelan
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