Fiametta: A Previously Unpublished Play by Eva Gore-Booth
| Author: | Gore-Booth, Eva | |
| Year: | 2010 | |
| Pages: | 132 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-3601-4 978-0-7734-3601-5 | |
| Price: | $139.95 + shipping | |
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This is the first ever publication of Fiametta, a five act play by the Irish poet, playwright and political activist Eva Gore-Booth. The manuscript of this previously unpublished play was discovered amongst the personal and literary papers of Gore-Booth. This is an exceptional find. It is rare indeed that an unpublished work, by a celebrated Irish author, is uncovered so many years after their death. This play is a significant contribution to the body of Eva Gore-Booth’s literary work. Fiametta contrasts with Gore-Booth’s other dramas and therefore, adds a new perspective to critical analysis of her work. This volume includes an introduction and brief synopsis of Gore-Booth’s dramatic works and a note on Fiametta.
Reviews
"a major contribution to the scholarship of Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Gay and
Lesbian Studies, Irish Studies and the historiography of the New Woman. . .While Eva Gore Booth is often characterised as a mystic poet and/or a revolutionary activist, her role
in the fashioning of and sympathy for the 'New Woman' is no more aptly demonstrated than in this
play."
“Fiametta is a highly illuminating publication of notable significance; it is an engaging read which highlights the radical nature of Eva Gore-Booth's politics.”
From the Foreword:
“The most interesting aspect of Fiametta’s engagement with what might be termed a genealogy of Queer Irish writing is how we can see Gore-Booth’s play engage with Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband (1893). . . . in important respects we can see Fiametta as a feminist (if not lesbian) counter-point . . .”
Prof. Maryann Valiulis
Trinity College
“Fiametta is a highly illuminating publication of notable significance; it is an engaging read which highlights the radical nature of Eva Gore-Booth's politics.”
-Prof. Seamus Mac Gabhann
National University of Ireland,
Maynooth
From the Foreword:
“The most interesting aspect of Fiametta’s engagement with what might be termed a genealogy of Queer Irish writing is how we can see Gore-Booth’s play engage with Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband (1893). . . . in important respects we can see Fiametta as a feminist (if not lesbian) counter-point . . .”
-Prof. Dr Katherine O’Donnell
University College Dublin