Melissa Sihra is Head of Drama at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and Assistant Professor of Drama. She is editor of Women in Irish Drama: A Century of Authorship and Representation and was President of the Irish Society for Theatre Research from 2011-15. She is a Dramaturg and regular speaker at the Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering at Coole Park.

• 1. Towards a Matriarchal Lineage.- 2. Seeking a Landscape: Early Pastures.- 3. Lakes of the Night: The Mai.- 4. Topographies of the Mind: Portia Coughlan.- 5. Writ in the Sky: By the Bog of Cats….- 6. The Haunted Kitchen: On Raftery’s Hill.- 7. Psychic Terrains: Ariel and Woman and Scarecrow.- 8. Playing the Field: The Cordelia Dream and Meat and Salt.- 9. Landscapes of the Mind’s Eye: The Giant Blue Hand and Marble.- 10. The Nature of Playwriting: Sixteen Possible Glimpses, Phaedra Backwards and Hecuba.- 11.Beyond the Gauze.

“An erudite, thought-provoking and startling fresh academic study which situates Marina Carr’s plays in relation to the patriarchal lineage of Irish modern drama. … Overall this book offers valuable critical study on Carr and – accurately – locates her within the female genealogy of modern Irish drama.” (Mia Colleran, The Irish Times, August 24, 2019)“Marina Carr: Pastures of the Unknown is a well-argued and thought-provoking addition to the small but growing corpus of critical studies on the theatre of Marina Carr.” (Adrienne Leavy, Reading Ireland, Issue 10, 2019)