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

by Susan Cannon Harris

Book Overview

Reveals the untold story of Irish drama's engagement with modernity's sexual and social revolutions
The 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474451977
• ISBN13: 9781474451970
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"