Women in Irish Drama: A Century of Authorship and Representation Book

Foreword--M.Carr
Preface--J.Reinelt
Introduction: Figures at the Window--M.Sihra
Interchapter I: 1900-1939--C.Leeney
Woman as Fantasy Object in Lady Gregory's Historical Tragedies--P.Murphy
Writing Women for a Modern Ireland: Geraldine Cummins and Susanne Day--V.O'Donoghue Greene
The Spaces Outside: Images of Women in Plays by Eva Gore-Booth and Dorothy Macardle--C.Leeney
Taking Their Own Road: The Female Protagonist in Three Irish Plays by Women': L.Fitzpatrick
Interchapter II: 1940-1969--M.Sihra
From Matron to Matrix: Gender and (Dis)embodiment in Beckett's Theatre--A.McMullan
Beyond the Pale: Neglected Northern Irish Women Playwrights, Alice Milligan, Helen Wadell and Patricia O'Connor--M.Phelan
Meta-physicality: Women Characters in the Plays of Frank McGuinness--E.Jordan
Dead Women Walking: The Female Body as a Site for War in Stewart Parker's Northern Star--R.O'Riordan
Interchapter III: 1970-2005--M.Sihra
Women in Rooms: Landscapes of the Missing in Anne Devlin's Ourselves Alone--E.Cerquoni
Liminal Spaces in ils N Dhuibhne's Dn na mBan Tr Thine (The Fort of the Fairy Women is on Fire)--A.Roche
Sick, Dying, Dead, Dispersed: The Evanescence of Patriarchy in Contemporary Irish Women's Theatre--B.Singleton
Marina Carr's Landscapes of Play and Possibility--M.Sihra
Afterword: The Act and the Word--O.Four
Appendix: List of Irish Women Playwrights and their Key Works Index