"Gender, Performance, and Authorship offers a different way to consider the creation of the major characters of the Abbey, holding the lines between writing and performing up to scrutiny, and ending with a connection between theatrical and film performance. The book challenges the way that auth...

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1. Verfasser:	Redwine, Elizabeth Brewer (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oxford ; New York Oxford University Press 2021
Ausgabe:	First edition
Schlagworte:	Abbey Theatre Film Geschlechterrolle Drama
Zusammenfassung:	"Gender, Performance, and Authorship offers a different way to consider the creation of the major characters of the Abbey, holding the lines between writing and performing up to scrutiny, and ending with a connection between theatrical and film performance. The book challenges the way that authorship and ownership have been defined as far back as the earliest productions at the Abbey, offering a redefinition of authorship and gender in these plays that reveals the influence and unheralded power of actresses at the Abbey. The book begins with Yeats's collaboration with Laura Armstrong in his earliest plays, his work with Maud Gonne on both The Countess Cathleen and Cathleen ni Houlihan, and then discusses Synge's productive work with Molly Allgood (stage name Maire O'Neill) first in The Playboy of the Western World and then in Deirdre of the Sorrows, a play she helped complete after his death. A chapter on the six women necessary to the creation of Yeats's Deirdre follows, before an Epilogue exploring connections between the tableau movement, the Abbey Theatre, and Sara Allgood's film work"--
Beschreibung:	xxvii, 201 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9780192896346