Sean O'Casey in context /
"Sean O'Casey is one of Ireland's best-known writers. His work has been praised by figures from G.B. Shaw to Marilyn Monroe. This book offers a full contextualisation of O'Casey, examining his famous plays and his writings in other forms, and drawing on varying ideas in order to...
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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| Series: | Lict literature in context
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Table of Contents:
- Dublin / Diarmaid Ferriter
- The Irish Revolution / Fearghal McGarry
- London / Lloyd Meadhbh Houston
- The Second World War / Susan Cannon Harris
- Devon / Christopher Collins
- Nationalism / Eugene McNulty
- Class / Michael Pierse
- Censorship / Brad Kent
- Women / Michelle C. Paull
- Gender and sexuality / Jodie Marley
- Disability / Elizabeth Grubgeld
- Race / James Moran
- Migration / Whitney Standlee
- Religion / Vicki Mahaffey
- Loss / Louise Lowe and Miriam Haughton
- W.B. Yeats / Charles I. Armstrong
- Lady Gregory / Eglantina Remport
- Bernard Shaw / Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel
- Eileen Carey (Eileen O'Casey) / James Moran
- Tomás Mac Anna / Alan Titley
- Seamus Deane / Joe Cleary
- Garry Hynes / Patrick Lonergan
- Theatrical emulators / Eamonn Jordan
- The Abbey Theatre / Chris Morash
- The Irish stage / Barry Houlihan
- The English stage / Peter James Harris
- Onstage in the USA / Tara Stubbs
- The French stage / Alexandra Poulain
- The German stage / Dieter Fuchs
- The Central-European stage / Ondřej Pilný
- The biography in performance / Soudabeh Ananisarab
- The autobiographies / Emmet O'Connor
- The letters / Christopher Murray
- Poetry, short stories, journalism and non-fiction / Niall Carson
- Seriality / Thirza Wakefield
- Experimentalism / Victor Merriman
- Modernism / Jean Chothia
- Revisionism / Shaun Richards
- Postcolonialism / Mark Quigley
- Ecocriticism / Eoin Flannery
- Tragedy / Nicholas Grene.