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This book is a comprehensive study of comic women in performance as Irish Political Melodrama from 1890 to 1925. It maps out the performance contexts of the period, such as Irish “poor” theatre both reflecting and complicating narratives of Irish Identity under British Rule. The study investigates the melodramatic aesthetic within these contexts and goes on to analyse a selection of the melodramas by the playwrights J.W. Whitbread and P.J. Bourke. In doing so, the analyses makes plain the comic
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- Author
- Susanne Colleary; Springer International Publishing
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783030020071
- Category
- performing arts
- Subjects
- History, Science, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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