Trojan Women and Irish Sexual Politics, 1920-2015
| Autor: | Isabelle Torrance |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Torrance, Isabelle, O'Rourke, Donncha |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Torrance, I 2020, Trojan Women and Irish Sexual Politics, 1920-2015 . in I Torrance & D O'Rourke (eds), Classics and Irish Politics, 1916-2016 . Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 254-267 . Classics and Irish Politics, 1916-2016 |
| Popis: | This chapter traces representations of the status of women in Ireland through three twentieth-century productions based on the Trojan Women of Euripides. As a tragedy about the brutalities of colonialism, the play was immediately topical when it was produced by the Dublin Drama League in 1920, with Maud Gonne in the starring role as Hecuba. The play’s reception, however, underlined women’s lack of political agency, as did Brendan Kennelly’s Trojan Women (1993) and Marina Carr’s Hecuba (2015). Kennelly’s Trojan women are inspired by suffering Irish women from rural villages, but his Hecuba represents female collusion in sexist oppression from which men escape responsibility. Carr’s women are sexually liberated but they remain prisoners. Female sexuality continues to be connected with disempowerment at a moment when the absence of women from the Abbey Theatre’s 1916 commemoration programme was generating significant public criticism. |
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