03503nam 2200757 a 450 991045600570332120200520144314.01-282-07200-5978661207200097802531093760-253-10973-6(CKB)111087026941636(EBL)146250(OCoLC)53012238(SSID)ssj0000161036(PQKBManifestationID)11169554(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000161036(PQKBWorkID)10198178(PQKB)10484549(MiAaPQ)EBC146250(MdBmJHUP)muse16884(Au-PeEL)EBL146250(CaPaEBR)ebr10022479(CaONFJC)MIL207200(EXLCZ)9911108702694163620011106d2002 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGender and modern Irish drama[electronic resource] /Susan Cannon HarrisBloomington Indiana University Pressc20021 online resource (324 p.)Drama and performance studies ;v. 14Description based upon print version of record.0-253-34117-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-295) and index.Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Bodies and Blood 1 -- 1. Body and Soul: Yeats, the Famine, and the Two Cathleens 28 -- 2. Under Siege: Blood, Borders, and the Body Politic 69 -- 3. Excess of Love: Padraig Pearse and the Erotics of Sacrifice 123 -- 4. The Body of Truth: Sensationalism and Sacrifice in Sean O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy 167 -- 5. Misbirth of a Nation: Yeats and the Irish Free State 227.Gender and Modern Irish Drama argues that the representations of sacrificial violence central to the work of the Abbey playwrights are intimately linked with constructions of gender and sexuality. Susan Cannon Harris goes beyond an 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, HDrama and performance studies ;v. 14.English dramaIrish authorsHistory and criticismWomen and literatureIrelandHistory20th centuryFeminism and literatureIrelandHistory20th centuryEnglish drama20th centuryHistory and criticismHuman body in literatureSex role in literatureWomen in literatureIrelandIn literatureElectronic books.English dramaIrish authorsHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistoryFeminism and literatureHistoryEnglish dramaHistory and criticism.Human body in literature.Sex role in literature.Women in literature.822/.91209352042/09417Harris Susan C(Susan Cannon),1969-1053136MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456005703321Gender and modern Irish drama2484860UNINA