Lauren Arrington

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Lauren Arrington is Professor of English at Maynooth University, Ireland. She is author of Revolutionary Lives (Princeton University Press, 2016), W. B. Yeats, the Abbey Theatre, Censorship and the Irish State (Oxford University Press, 2010), and a book about W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and late modernism in Mussolini’s Italy, forthcoming with Oxford University Press. She is editor of the collection Late Modernism & Expatriation (Clemson University Press, forthcoming) and, with Matthew Campbell, The Oxford Handbook of W. B. Yeats.

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Towards a Late Modernist Theater

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all the ad hoc committees, all the picket lines . . . all the tools of agitprop straight across the spectrum, do not confer upon anyone any ipso facto virtue. —Joan Didion [1] Joan Didion begins her 1968 collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem with W. B. Yeats’s “The Second Coming” printed in full as an epigraph; the title and the long quotation underscore Didion’s perception of the rupture of the 1960s: a revolution—sexual and political—of which she was skeptical. As she explains in her preface...

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