Women in Irish Drama

Chapter 1 Introduction: Figures at the Window

Chapter 2 Woman as Fantasy Object in Lady Gregory’s Historical Tragedies

Chapter 3 Writing Women for a Modern Ireland: Geraldine Cummins and Susanne Day

Chapter 4 The Space Outside: Images of Women in Plays by Eva Gore-Booth and Dorothy Macardle

Chapter 5 Taking their Own Road: The Female Protagonists in Three Irish Plays by Women

Chapter 6 From Matron to Matrix: Gender, Authority and (Dis)embodiment in Beckett’s Theatre

Chapter 7 Beyond the Pale: Neglected Northern Irish Women Playwrights, Alice Milligan, Helen Waddell and Patricia O’Connor

Chapter 8 Meta-Physicality: Women Characters in the Plays of Frank McGuinness

Chapter 9 Dead Women Walking: The Female Body as a Site for War in Stewart Parker’s Northern Star

Chapter 10 Women in Rooms: Landscapes of the Missing in Anne Devlin’s Ourselves Alone

Chapter 11 Staging the Liminal in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s Dún na mBan Trí Thine (The Fort of the Fairy Women is On Fire)

Chapter 12 Sick, Dying, Dead, Dispersed: The Evanescence of Patriarchy in Contemporary Irish Women’s Theatre