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Performative and textual imaging of women on the Irish stage, 1820-1920; M.A. Kelly to J.M. Synge and the Allgoods.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Performative and textual imaging of women on the Irish stage, 1820-1920; M.A. Kelly to J.M. Synge and the Allgoods.

Ritschel, Nelson O'Ceallaigh.

Edwin Mellen Pr.

2006

206 pages

$109.95

Hardcover

PN2601

They trod the boards when to do so was not entirely respectable, yet how they portrayed Irish womanhood closely reflected the perception of the Irish about themselves as they swept from the Catholic Emancipation to the very real idea of becoming a free state. Ritschel (humanities, Massachusetts Maritime Academy) takes a ...

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