Irish Women Playwrights, 1900-1939

Irish Women Playwrights 1900-1939 is the first book to examine the plays of five fascinating and creative women, and their work for theatre in the crucial decades of the Irish cultural renaissance, up To The social consolidation and conservatism of the 1930s. The playwrights are Augusta Gregory, Eva Gore-Booth, Dorothy Macardle, Mary Manning, and Teresa Deevy. The book examines key works by each writer in terms of their theatrical value in performance. How these playwrights dramatize violence and its impacts in political, social and personal life is the central interest of this book. They re-model theatrical form, re-structuring action and narrative, and exploring closure as a way of disrupting audience expectation. The plays create stage spaces and images that expose relationships of power and authority, and invite the audience to see the performance not as illusion, but as framed by the conventions and limits of theatrical representation. The book is new in two ways: ?