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(2018) Marina Carr, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Landscapes of the mind's eye

the giant blue hand and marble

Melissa Sihra

pp. 223-248

Marina Carr's Dream Play Cycle threads elusive territories to shape the internal life where, as Hamlet says, "A dream itself is but a shadow". Dreams, like theatre, operate through images to express the imago or metaphysical form of the imagination and are an intrinsic aspect of Carr's creative process: "Dreams help me a lot. […] Writing from the unconscious seems the best place, of course tempered with the conscious, but I think it is the truest".

Publication details

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98331-8_9

Full citation:

Sihra, M. (2018). Landscapes of the mind's eye: the giant blue hand and marble, in Marina Carr, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 223-248.

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