Irish drama and the other revolutions : playwrights, sexual politics and the international left, 1892-1964 / Susan Cannon Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Susan C. (Susan Cannon), 1969- author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance.

Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English drama.

Politics and literature--Ireland--History.

Politics and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1 DESIRING WOMEN: IRISH PLAYWRIGHTS, NEW WOMEN AND QUEER SOCIALISM, 1892–1894

2 ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT: UTOPIAN DESIRES, DESIGNS AND DEFERRALS IN MAN AND SUPERMAN AND JOHN BULL’S OTHER ISLAND

3 WE’LL KEEP THE RED FLAG FLYING HERE: SYNDICALISM, JIM LARKIN AND IRISH MASCULINITY AT THE ABBEY THEATRE, 1911–1919

4 MOBILISING MAURYA: J. M. SYNGE, BERTOLT BRECHT AND THE REVOLUTIONARY MOTHER

5 THE FLAMING SUNFLOWER: THE SOVIET UNION AND SEAN O’CASEY’S POST-REALISM

EPILOGUE: WHAT THE IRISH LEFT – SEAN O’CASEY, SAMUEL BECKETT AND LORRAINE HANSBERRY’S THE SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN’S WINDOW

WORKS CITED

INDEX

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-2448-1

1-4744-3454-1

1-4744-2447-3

OCLC:

1306539223