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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Marina Carr"”.
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Ghostly Faces and Liminal Spaces: Landscape, Gender, and Identity in the Plays of Marina Carr
In my dissertation, I argue that Marina Carr creates liminal spaces in her plays, exploring the tensions inherent in the issues of landscape, gender, and identity. She uses these liminal spaces to expose her audiences to more complex conceptions of Ireland in the twenty-first century. For example, …
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“We've All To Grow Old”: Representations of Agingas Reflections of Cultural Change on the Celtic Tiger Irish Stage
… work of four Irish playwrights: Sebastian Barry, Marina Carr, Conor McPherson, and Elaine Murphy. Specifically, it investigates the inclusion, by these playwrights, of “elderly” characters in their plays written between 1995 and 2010—a period of economic and cultural change …
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Marina Carr's Hauntings: Liminality and the Addictive Society On and Off the Stage
… thesis is an examination of the trapped lives of Marina Carr's female protagonists and their relevance to contemporary Irish women. In her six plays from The Mai to Woman and Scarecrow, each of Carr's female protagonists is trapped either in a liminal state, defined by Victor Turner as a phase in …
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The Socially Deviant (M)other in Euripides' "Medea" and Two Modern Adaptations
… BC), Steve Carter’s <em>Pecong </em>(1990), and Marina Carr’s <em>By the Bog of Cats </em>(1998) respectively, all based on the Medea myth, commonly define the social deviant (m)other and condemn her for her “otherness.” It also discusses the limitations of each society’s decision to label the …