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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Redwine, Elizabeth Brewer
Titre(s) : Gender, performance, and authorship at the Abbey Theatre [Texte imprimé] / Elizabeth Brewer Redwine
Publication : Oxford : Oxford university press, 2021
Description matérielle : xxvii, 201 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198) and index
Gender, Performance, and Authorship at the Abbey Theatre argues for a reconsideration
of authorship at the Abbey Theatre. The actresses who performed the key roles at the
Abbey contributed original ideas, language, stage directions, and revisions to the
theatre's most renowned performances and texts, and this study asks that we consider
the role of actresses in the development of these plays. Plays that have been historically
attributed to W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge have complicated histories, and the neglect
of these women's contributions over the past century reflects power dynamics that
privilege male, Anglo Irish writers over the contributions of working class actresses.
The study asks that readers consider the importance of past performance in the creation
of written text. 0Yeats began his earliest plays performing with and writing for Laura
Armstrong, a young woman who was a precursor to Maud Gonne in her irreverent challenge
to traditional gender roles. After writing his first plays and poems for Armstrong,
Yeats met Gonne and developed two Cathleen plays, The Countess Cathleen and Cathleen
ni Houlihan, for her to perform, beginning a lifetime of fruitful argument between
the two writers about how Ireland should appear onstage. The book then turns to Synge's
work with Molly Allgood in creating The Playboy of the Western World and Molly's contributions
to Synge's Deirdre of the Sorrows. A section on Yeats's Deirdre shows the contributions
of Lady Gregory and the play's performers. The book ends with a reconsideration of
Abbey actress Sara Allgood's performances in British and American film as she brought
her earliest work in the pre-Abbey tableau movement to American audiences in the 1940s,
in ways that challenged ideas of Irishness, American identity, and aging women on
screen
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- Autre forme du titre : Gender, performance, and authorship at the Abbey Theater
Sujet(s) : Yeats, W. B. (1865-1939) -- Mise en scène -- Histoire
Synge, John Millington (1871-1909) -- Mise en scène -- Histoire
Écrivains et théâtre -- Dublin (Irlande) -- 20e siècle
Abbey Theatre (Dublin)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0192896342. - ISBN 9780192896346 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46829389p
Notice n° :
FRBNF46829389
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