The dreaming body : contemporary Irish theatre /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire [England] : Colin Smythe Limited ; New York : Distributed in North America by Oxford University Press, 2009.
Description:x, 231 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Ulster editions and monographs, 0954-3392 ; 16
Ulster editions and monographs ; 16.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7889650
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Other authors / contributors:Sihra, Melissa, 1973-
Murphy, Paul, 1971-
ISBN:9780861404650
0861404653
0861404645
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Seamus Heaney. 'The Wood Road' -
  • Melissa Sihra & Paul Murphy. Introduction, 'The Dreaming Body'
  • Eamonn Jordan. 'Urban Dramas: Any Myth Will Do?'
  • Extract from Marina Carr's Chekhov, introduced by Melissa Sihra
  • Lynne Parker. 'Showtime: The Strategy of Mischief in the Plays of Stewart Parker'
  • Mark Phelan. 'Performing ""Authentic"" Ireland: (Dis)connecting the Cultural Politics of the Irish Revival and the Celtic Tiger on the Irish Stage'
  • Rhona Trench. 'Staging Morality in On Raftery's Hill: A Kristevan Reading'
  • Stephen Regan. 'Terry Eagleton's Saint Oscar'
  • Extract from Terry Eagleton's Saint Oscar
  • Brian Singleton. 'Queer Eye for the Irish Guy: Transgressive Sexualities and the Performance of Nation'
  • Olwen Fouere. 'Operating Theatre and Angel/Babel'
  • Aoife Monks. 'Looking for Fiona: Gender and Nationality in the Work of Fiona Shaw'
  • Paul Murphy. 'Brian Friel's Wonderful Tennessee, or what was lost in Translations'
  • Conall Morrison. 'The Future of Greek Tragedy and The Bacchae of Baghdad'
  • Extract from Conall Morrison's The Bacchae of Baghdad
  • Melissa Sihra. 'Birthdays and Deathdays in the Theatre of Samuel Beckett and Marina Carr'
  • David Johnston. 'En otras palabras: Frank McGuinness and Spanish Drama'
  • Donal O'Kelly in conversation with Paul Murphy
  • Robert Welch. 'Afterword'