Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899-1949

PAUL MURPHY is Lecturer in Drama Studies at Queen's University Belfast, UK, and is President of the Irish Society for Theatre Research.

Introduction  PART I: PEASANT QUALITY AND THE NATIONAL QUINTESSENCE Dream of the Noble and the Beggarman To Live the Things That I Before Imagined Whatever Rule We May Have, We'll Always Have Our Tramps and Paupers That Ireland Which We Dreamed Of PART II: THE WOMAN AND ITS VICISSITUDES   What Kind of a Living Woman is it That You Are At All? That a Black Twisty Divil Could Be Hiding Under Such Comeliness Sure if I Was a Good Wife to Him – That Mightn't Be An Easy Job! Woman Gives to the State Bibliography Index