Performative and Textual Imaging of Women on the Irish Stage, 1820-1920: M.A. Kelly to J.M. Synge and the Allgoods

by Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel

Explores the way women, specifically women perceived or presented as Irish, were represented on the Dublin stage by playwrights and actors from the 1820s to the 1920s. Rather than being a feminist reading of modern Irish theatre, this book presents a nationalist and socialist reading of the theatre in its cultural and historical contexts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773454926
• ISBN13: 9780773454927
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Length: 206 Pages