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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Moran, James, 1978- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
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.