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Sean O'Casey
Sean O'Casey's tragicomic masterpiece, set during the Irish Civil War.
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Paul O'Brien
On the hundredth anniversary of the production of Sean O'Casey's Dublin plays at the Abbey Theatre, this timely book, Sean O'Casey: Political activist and writer situates O'Casey in the literary…
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Robert Goode Hogan
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James Moran (University of Nottingham, UK)
A Critical Companion to one of Ireland’s most famous, studied and controversial, playwrights, this provides a detailed exploration of O'Casey’s oeuvre taking in his plays, autobiographical writing and essays. Special…
This volume was created to mark the centenary of the birth of Sean O'Casey. It covers every aspect of his life and work, with essays from leading scholars in the…
Drama Sean O'Casey Characters: 10 male, 5 female Three interior and exterior scenes This play is gripping from beginning to end. It has to do with the futile efforts of…
The Drums of Father Ned is a play written by Irish playwright Sean O'Casey. The story is set in Dublin during the Easter Rising of 1916, a pivotal moment in…
Sean O'Casey’s powerful anti-war play of 1928, receives a major revival.
This educational edition, with the full play text and an introduction to the playwright, features a detailed analysis of the language, structure and characters of the play, and textual notes…
The most famous play by this remarkable Irish dramatist. Juno and the Paycock has been produced throughout the world and offers a compelling look at the family conflicts of struggling…
This is the first account of the formation of the Irish Citizen Army during the Dublin strike of 1913-1914, and the part it played in the subsequent history of Ireland…
Three early plays by Sean O'Casey–arguably his three greatest–demonstrate vividly O'Casey’s ability to convey the reality of life and the depth of human emotion, specifically in Dublin before and during…
Robert Lowery
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Bernice Schrank
Though The Shadow of a Gunman and Juno and the Paycock helped save the Abbey Theatre from near bankruptcy, The Plough and the Stars drew open criticism in 1926, when…
Professor Christopher Murray
One of a series concerning the major plays of leading 20th-century playwrights. This guide introduces, explores and analyzes in detail the principal themes and styles of the work of Sean…
Christopher Murray
Se?O'Casey was the quintessential Dublin playwright. In critical works that include his Dublin Trilogy - The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, and The Plough and the Stars…
Brooks Atkinson
Sean O’ Casey (1880-1964) was a celebrated but reclusive Irish playwright. Brooks Atkinson’s Sean O'Casey: From Times Past examines O'Casey. With the assist of O'Casey scholar Robert G. Lowery, Atkinson…
Michael Kenneally
Irish Literary Studies Series No. 26.
Sean Kenneally
With these critical perspectives estab-lished, the book examines O'Casey’s insistent experimentation with all aspects of autobiographical form: his blending of personal history with information on a host of secondary figures…
Sean O'Casey,Ronald Ayling,Steven M. Studebaker
This edition of Sean O'Casey’s major plays is designed specifically for students and teachers. The plays are supported by a full introduction, covering O'Casey’s career and critical responses to the…
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Colbert Kearney
Levels of education and, consequently, of literacy were low in the Dublin tenements at the beginning of the 20th century, and this facilitated the persistence of an oral tradition which…
Jules Koslow
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Sean O'Casey’s Red Roses for Me, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel
This book details the Irish socialistic tracks pursued by Bernard Shaw and Sean O'Casey, mostly after 1916, that were arguably impacted by the executed James Connolly. The historical context is…
Beate Lahrmann-Hartung
O'Caseys Dramentheorie und -praxis wird aus der Perspektive des Brechtschen epischen Theaters untersucht. Leitendes Erkenntnis- interesse ist dabei, eine objektiv begrundete Verwandtschaft beider Kunstler herauszuarbeiten, d.h. nicht eine, die aus…
Regarded by O'Casey as his best play, this dark comedy about Irish rural life at mid-century symbolises the struggle between repression and liberty. Although the final victory is to the…
Werner Besier
Originally presented as the author’s thesis, Frankfurt am Main.
Augusta Gregory
Contains The Travelling Man, Spreading the News, Kincora, Hyacinth Halvey, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, The Gaol Gate, The Rising of the Moon, Dervorgilla, The Workhouse Ward, Grania, The…
The Harvest Festival is Sean O'Casey’s earliest extant play. Written in about 1918 or 1919, it was the second play that O'Casey offered the Abbey Theatre. It was turned down…
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J.M. Synge,Sean O'Casey,W B Yeats
A murderer becomes the toast of the village as his charm negates his crime. A young countess saves her tenants from starvation, but only by selling her soul to the…
Peter Stapelberg
Diese Arbeit ist ein Beitrag zur empirischen Rezeptionsforschung im Bereich des deutschsprachigen Theaters nach 1945. Mit der Untersuchung des umstrittenen anglo-irischen Dramatikers Sean O'Casey wird der Versuch unternommen, den historischen…
