Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions: Playwrights, Sexual Politics and the International Left, 1892-1964 by Cannon Harris, Susan

Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions: Playwrights, Sexual Politics and the International Left, 1892-1964 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781474451970)

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Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions: Playwrights, Sexual Politics and the International Left, 1892-1964 by Cannon Harris, Susan

Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions: Playwrights, Sexual Politics and the International Left, 1892-1964

$37.95
Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions: Playwrights, Sexual Politics and the International Left, 1892-1964 by Cannon Harris, Susan

Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions: Playwrights, Sexual Politics and the International Left, 1892-1964

$37.95
Format: Paperback
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Reveals the untold story of Irish drama's engagement with modernity's sexual and social revolutionsThe first modern Irish playwrights emerged in London in the 1890s, at the intersection of a rising international socialist movement and a new campaign for gender equality and sexual freedom. Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions shows how Irish playwrights mediated between the sexual and the socialist revolutions, and traces their impact on left theatre in Europe and America from the 1890s to the 1960s. Drawing on original archival research, the study reconstructs the engagement of Yeats, Shaw, Wilde, Synge, O'Casey, and Beckett with socialists and sexual radicals like Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, Florence Farr, Bertolt Brecht, and Lorraine Hansberry.

Author: Susan Cannon Harris
ISBN-10: 1474451977
ISBN-13: 9781474451970
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/13/2019
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
By Susan Cannon Harris
By Susan Cannon Harris
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Susan Cannon Harris is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Keough Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her book Gender and Modern Irish Drama (IUP, 2002) was awarded the Donald Murphy Prize for a Distinguished First Book and the Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature by the American Conference for Irish Studies. Harris has published on eighteenth century Irish theater, contemporary Irish drama, and modern British fiction.

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