Elizabeth Brewer Redwine

Gender, Performance, and Authorship at the Abbey Theatre

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the Abbey Theatre, looking specifically at relationships between W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge and the women who performed their works.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 146mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780192896346
• ISBN-10: 0192896342
• Artikelnr.: 61118410

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Brewer Redwine is the co-author with Amrita Ghosh of Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Re-envisioning. She edits the annual online journal, Critical Inquiries into Irish Studies, with Martha Carpentier, and publishes and presents on gender and performance in Irish and postcolonial studies. She teaches in the English Department at Seton Hall University, received her doctorate from Emory University, and is President of the New Jersey College English Association.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: "She Set Me Writing My First Play": Laura Armstrong and Yeats's
Early Drama
* 2: "A Play She Could Act in Dublin": Maud Gonne's Cathleens
* 3: My Pegeen Mike: Ownership and Performance in The Playboy
* 4: A "Brutal" Deirdre: Molly Allgood's Body and Deirdre of the
Sorrows
* 5: Collaboration and Yeats's Deirdre: "passionate and solitary" or
"the voice of the crowd"?
* Epilogue: How Cathleen Became Mrs Monihan: Sara Allgood's "Grave
Acting" on Stage and Film