Gender and modern Irish drama
By: Susan Cannon Harris.
Series: Drama and performance studies ;; v. 14
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Yeats, W. B. 1865-1939 -- Dramatic works; Yeats, W. B. 1865-1939 -- Characters -- Women; English drama -- Irish authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century; Feminism and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century; English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Feminist drama, English -- History and criticism; Body, Human, in literature; Sex role in literature; Women in literature; Ireland -- In literature
Description: "Susan Cannon Harris goes beyond the examination of the relationship between Irish national drama and Irish nationalist politics to the larger question of the way national identity and gender identity are constructed through each other. Radically redefining the context in which the Abbey plays were performed, Harris documents the material and discursive forces that produced Irish conceptions of gender.

She looks at cultural constructions of the human body and their influence on nationalist rhetoric, linking the production and reception of the plays to conversations about public health, popular culture, economic policy, and racial identity that were taking place inside and outside the nationalist community."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-295) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Bodies and Blood 1; title: 1. Body and Soul: Yeats, the Famine, and the Two Cathleens 28; title: 2. Under Siege: Blood, Borders, and the Body Politic 69; title: 3. Excess of Love: Padraig Pearse and the Erotics of Sacrifice 123; title: 4. The Body of Truth: Sensationalism and Sacrifice in Sean O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy 167; title: 5. Misbirth of a Nation: Yeats and the Irish Free State 227.