Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre

ISBN: 9781108621038 出版年：2019 页码：270 Shonagh Hill Cambridge University Press

The rich legacy of women's contributions to irish theatre is traditionally viewed through a male-dominated literary canon and mythmaking, thus arguably silencing their work. In this timely book, shonagh hill proposes a feminist genealogy which brings new perspectives to women's mythmaking across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The performances considered include the tableaux vivants performed by the inghinidhe na heireann (daughters of ireland), plays written by alice milligan, maud gonne, lady augusta gregory, eva gore-booth, mary devenport o'neill, mary elizabeth burke-kennedy, paula meehan, edna o'brien and marina carr, as well as plays translated, adapted and performed by olwen fouere. The theatrical work discussed resists the occlusion of women's cultural engagement that results from confinement to idealised myths of femininity.