TY - BOOK ID - 33279131 TI - Marina Carr : Pastures of the Unknown PY - 2018 SN - 3319983318 331998330X PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - English drama KW - Irish authors KW - History and criticism. KW - Carr, Marina, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Theater. KW - British literature. KW - Contemporary Theatre. KW - British and Irish Literature. KW - National/Regional Theatre and Performance. KW - Dramatics KW - Histrionics KW - Professional theater KW - Stage KW - Theatre KW - Performing arts KW - Acting KW - Actors UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33279131 AB - This book locates the theatre of Marina Carr within a female genealogy that revises the patriarchal origins of modern Irish drama. The creative vision of Lady Augusta Gregory underpins the analysis of Carr’s dramatic vision throughout the volume in order to re-situate the woman artist as central to Irish theatre. For Carr, ‘writing is more about the things you cannot understand than the things you can’, and her evocation of ‘pastures of the unknown’ forms the thematic through-line of this work. Lady Gregory’s plays offer an intuitive lineage with Carr which can be identified in their use of language, myth, landscape, women, the transformative power of storytelling and infinite energies of nature and the Otherworld. This book reconnects the severed bridge between Carr and Gregory in order to acknowledge a foundational status for all women in Irish theatre. ER -