Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre

Provides an historical overview of women's mythmaking and thus their contributions to, and an alternative genealogy of, modern Irish theatre.

List of contents

Introduction: a creative female corporeality; 1. Revolutionary bodies: mythmaking and Irish feminisms; 2. Unhomely bodies: transforming space; 3. Process and resistance: metamorphic 'bodies that matter'; 4. Staging female death: sacrificial and dying bodies; 5. Haunted bodies and violent pasts; 6. Olwen Fouéré's Corpus: the performer's body and her body of work.

About the author

Shonagh Hill teaches at University College Dublin. She was awarded an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship 2016–17 (University College Dublin) to develop her monograph Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre. Hill has published articles on women and Irish theatre in a range of leading journals and internationally reviewed books. Most recently, 'Feeling Out of Place: The 'affective dissonance' of the feminist spectator in The Boys of Foley Street' was published in Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times (2017).

Product details

• Authors: Shonagh Hill, Shonagh (University College Dublin) Hill
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781108485333
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48533-3
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; DRAMA / European / General, Ireland, Theatre Studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights