Overview
- Offers new insights into Irish performance history, with a particular focus on the Irish female performance
- Interrogates the relationship between the “patriotic plays” and the established theatrical canon
- Includes original research drawn from a series of workshops and a performance of the author’s own script
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy (PSCOM)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Comic Everywoman in Irish Popular Theatre
Book Subtitle: Political Melodrama, 1890-1925
Authors: Susanne Colleary
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02008-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02007-1Published: 15 January 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40433-8Published: 20 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02008-8Published: 30 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2731-4332
Series E-ISSN: 2731-4340
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 130
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comedy Studies, Popular Culture , National/Regional Theatre and Performance, European Politics