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Political Acts : Women in Northern Irish Theatre, 1921-2012 /

Since the establishment of the Northern Irish state in 1921, theatre has often captured and reflected the political, social, and cultural changes that the North has experienced. From the mid-twentieth century, theatre has played a particularly important role in documenting women's experiences a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coffey, Fiona (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : setting the scene
  • part one. Theatre, gender, and politics, 1921-1979
  • 1. Nation, conflict, and the politics of feminism
  • 2. Theatre and state censorship
  • 3. Raising the curtain : Alice Milligan, Patricia O'Connor, and Mary O'Malley
  • part two. Troubles and the stage, 1980-1997
  • 4. Community engagement : the Charabanc Theatre Company
  • 5. Political drama and controversy : DubbelJoint and the JustUs Community Theatre Company
  • part three. the post-agreement North, 1998-2012
  • 6. Borderlands and the rural North : Abbie Spallen
  • 7. The Protestant urban underclass : Stacey Gregg and Rosemary Jenkinson
  • 8. Experimental theatre and queer dramaturgy : Shannon Yee
  • Conclusion : making strides.