Ann Saddlemyer

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Research Interests

• Contemporary Irish theatre, particularly in respect of the representation of subjectivities
• Biography
• Canadian theatre history

Select Publications

• Editor (with Richard Plant). Later Stages: Theatre in Ontario 1800-1914. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1997.
• ‘John Bull's Other Island: “Seething in the Brain.”’ The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 25.1&2 (1999) : 219-240.
• ‘Spirits in Space: Theatricality and the Occult in Tissot's Life and Art.’ In Seductive Surfaces: The Art of Tissot, ed. Katharine Lochnan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. 139-59.
• Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W.B. Yeats. Oxford
  and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• ‘Mothering Genius.’ In Kaleidoscopic views of Ireland, ed. Munira H. Mutran and Laura P.Z. Izarra. Sao Paulo: Universidade de Sao Paulo, 2003. 95-112.
• Synge’s When the Moon Has Set, ed. With notes in Synge: A Celebration, ed. Colm Tóbín (Dublin: Carysfort Press and DruidSynge, 2005), 147-63
• “Shaw’s Playboy: Man and Superman”, in Irish Studies in Brazil, ed. Munira H. Mutran and Laura P.Z.Izarra (Sâo Paulo: Associaçâo Editorial Humanitas, 2005), 103-126
• “Play and Interplay – Synge and Lady Gregory”, in From ‘English Literature’ to ‘Literatures in English’ International Perspectives: Festschrift in Honour of Wolfgang Zach, eds. Michael Kenneally and Rhona Richman Kenneally (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag, 2005), 119-131
• “Behind the Scenes: Irish Theatre, Irish Lives, and the Task of the Biographer”, in Theatre and AutoBiography: Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice, ed. Sherrill Grace and Jerry Wasserman (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2006), 261-74
• “John Millington Synge - the Wicklow Man”, in Ashford Writers in Residence, comp. Sheila Clarke (Ashford: Ashford Books: 2006), 37-53
• “Designing Ladies: Women Artists and the Early Abbey Stage”, in Princeton University Library Chronicle, ed. Gretchen Oberfranc Vol. LXVII, numbers 1 and 2 (Autumn 2006-Winter 2007), 163-99
• “John Synge in Context; or, re-Positioning Synge”, in Ireland: Representation and Responsibility, eds Werner Huber, Michael Böss, Catherine Maignant, Hedwig Schwall (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag. 2007), 13-30
• W B Yeats Manuscripts: The Tower (1928), ed. Richard Finneran with Jared Curtis and Ann Saddlemyer (Cornell University Press, 2007)
• “Garry Hynes and Ann Saddlemyer in Conversation”, DruidSynge: The Plays of John Millington Synge, Disc Two (Wildfire films/Druid Production (2007)
• “Music, Song and Much More... Revisiting the Gregorian World”, in A New Ireland in Brazil: Festschrift in Honour of Munira Hamud Mutran, eds. Laura P.Z.Izarra and Beatriz Kopschitz X. Bastos (Sao Paulo: Humanitas, 2008), 211-29

Related Activities

One of General Editors of the Cornell Yeats

Co- General Editor of Selected Irish Plays (Smythe)

Corresponding Scholar, Academy of the Shaw Festival Theatre Board

Director of Colin Smythe Limited, Publishers

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