Conclusions

Abstract

This closing chapter does not merely recap the main arguments and objectives of the book. In line with the book’s purpose to open up Yeats’s and D’Annunzio’s scripts to more global and topical political interpretations, this conclusion is somewhat unusual as academic concluding notes go, as it outlines how the increasingly authoritarian and anti-gender Hungarian political context has informed my queer understanding of the scripts and the ways in which this political context affected the book writing process. While the vast bulk of this book focused on how Yeats’s and D’Annunzio’s scripts had been informed by the misogynistic and homophobic political contexts of their time, this conclusion explicates how the political context of writing this book has informed my readings of Yeats’s and D’Annunzio’s scripts. This unusual closing chapter thus draws parallels between the scripts and the context in which the book was composed. It also briefly unpacks the ways in which the texts and the activism of the women who embodied the protagonists might help other people from marginalised communities find something in Yeats’s and D’Annunzio’s plays that speaks more directly to their own experiences.