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Susan Cannon Harris, Gender and Modern Irish Drama.(Book Review)
From: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
Date: 20050322
Author:Leeney, Cathy
Susan Cannon Harris, Gender and Modern Irish Drama. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xi + 307 pages. No price given.
This book makes an argument that the trope of blood sacrifice works to reinforce gender stereotypes, so that the male body is the subject of sacrifice, while the female body is the repository and guardian of values for which the sacrifice is made; selected plays in the period 1899 to 1939, by W.B. Yeats, Edward Martyn, J.M. Synge, Patrick Pearse, and Sean O'Casey are measured against this idea, and against the cultural context of their first ...
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