Seven Plays By Sean O'casey

Seven Plays By Sean O'casey
Author: Sean O'Casey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 585
Release: 1985-10-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1349179779

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 plays, full notes and a bibliography.

Frame Structures

Frame Structures
Author: Susan Howe
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780811213226

In Frame Structures, Susan Howe brings together those of her earliest poems she wishes to remain in print, and in the forms in which she cares to have them last. Gathered here are versions of Hinge Picture (1974), Chanting at the Crystal Sea (1975), Cabbage Gardens (1979), and Secret History of the Dividing Line (1978) that differ in some respects from their original small-press editions. In a long preface, "Frame Structures", written especially for this volume, Howe suggests the autobiographical, familial, literary, and historical motifs that suffuse these early works. Taken together, the preface and poems reflect her rediscovered sense of her own beginnings as a poet, her movement from the visual arts into the iconography of the written word.

O’Casey Annual No. 2

O’Casey Annual No. 2
Author: Robert G. Lowery
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 185
Release: 1983-06-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 134906209X

The Plough and the Stars

The Plough and the Stars
Author: Sean O'Casey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1926
Genre: Ireland
ISBN:

The play examines the powerful force of political idealism and the lives of those swept up in its tide. It is the final play in Sean O'Casey's Dublin trilogy.

Juno and the Paycock

Juno and the Paycock
Author: Sean O'Casey
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2024-10-10
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0571394973

Ah, what can God do agen the stupidity o' men! Dublin, 1922. The Irish Civil War is tearing the nation apart. In the cauldron of the family's tiny tenement flat, Juno Boyle, a beleaguered matriarch whose sharp wit is a survival tool, struggles to make ends meet and keep the family together. Her husband, 'Captain' Jack Boyle, fancies himself a ship's commander but sails no further than the pub. Then providence comes knocking with news of a great inheritance. Sean O'Casey's tragicomic masterpiece was first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1924, and revived at the Gielgud Theatre, London, in September 2024. 'The power of Juno and the Paycock never fails to surprise and enthral and inspire. Its violent passion, its deep humanity, its bubbling humour and its appalling tragedy are soaked in the very spirit of Ireland itself.' Daily Mail