Author: Sean O'CaseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Three Plays
Author: Sean O'CaseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Selected Plays of Sean O'Casey
Author: Sean O'CaseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Three Dublin Plays
Author: Sean O'CaseyPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780571195527
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This volume contains the three plays commonly recognized as the height of O'Casey's achievement as a playwright. His tragi-comedy has relevance to the violent politics in the North and the post-nationalist bewilderments in the Republic.
The Plough and the Stars
Author: Sean O'CaseyPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571331297
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
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 explaining difficult words and references. It contains: - The full playtext - An introduction to the playwright, his background and his work - A detailed analysis of language, structure and characters in the play - Features of performance - Textual notes explaining difficult words and references
Red Roses for Me
Author: Sean O'CaseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
The New York Times describes the play "... as based on a strike in Dublin in 1913-1914 that led to the 'bloody Easter Week Rising of 1916.' But as in all Mr. O'Casey's latter-day plays, the real theme is the life of man-his valor, his joy, his love, his religious devotion, his loyalty and his belief in the future..." --www.doollee.com.
The Silver Tassie
Author: Sean O'CaseyPublisher: New York, Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Ireland, World War One. Dashing Harry Heegan leads his football team to victory, arriving home in swaggering celebration before he grabs his kit and heads for the trenches. A nightmare world awaits, the men, reduced to cannon fodder, speaking in mangled incantations as the casualties stack up. Months later, Harry returns, a cripple at the football club party. Everyone but the shattered war veterans dance and forget.
Paul Scofield
Author: Garry O'ConnorPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557834997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
"Scofield, however, is adamantly not a celebrity actor. As guardian of his craft and integrity, he has kept himself most carefully out of the limelight. This, in fact, is the first full biography of him. Garry O'Connor, highly respected for his theatrical biographies, presents a richly drawn, fully dimensional portrait of the great actor. O'Connor interviewed the intensely private Scofield himself, as well as many of the actors and directors he has worked with, including Simon Callow, Trevor Nunn, Richard Eyre, and Peter Hall. The result is a biography of one of the past century's most remarkable and enigmatic icons."--BOOK JACKET.
Good Behaviour
Author: Molly KeanePublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0748132856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Discover this wickedly funny classic about the very bad behaviour of an aristocratic family - A BBC2 Between the Covers pick! *** 'Molly Keane is a mistress of wicked comedy' VOGUE 'Dark, complex, engaging . . . a wonderful tour de force' MARIAN KEYES I do know how to behave - believe me, because I know. I have always known . . . Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. To Aroon St Charles, large and unlovely daughter of the house, the fierce forces of sex, money, jealousy and love seem locked out by the ritual patterns of good behaviour. But crumbling codes of conduct cannot hope to save the members of the St Charles family from their own unruly and inadmissible desires. . . 'I have read and re-read Molly Keane more, I think, than any other writer. Nobody else can touch her as a satirist, tragedian and dissector of human behaviour. I love all her books, but Good Behaviour and Loving and Giving are the ones I return to most' MAGGIE O'FARRELL
Sean O’Casey
Author: R. AylingPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 134915301X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Sean O'Casey
Author: Christopher MurrayPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 077352889X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
"In Sean O'Casey: Writer at Work Christopher Murray takes a fresh look at the life of the last of the great writers of the Irish literary revival. Re-exploring the Dublin of O'Casey's childhood and the political situation in the Ireland during his early life, Murray sets them against O'Casey's autobiographies in an attempt to establish 'O'Casey's Ireland'. The second half of O'Casey's life was spent mostly outside Ireland and much of his income came from the United States. Murray examines his rise as an international figure and contrasts his later, more socialist, work with his more nationalist early work." "Christopher Murray establishes O'Casey as a self-made man of letters, an irrepressible fighter, a man who combined political courage and innocence, torn between a humanist vision of life rooted in his Dublin childhood and a utopian but blinkered loyalty to the Soviet Union." "Sean O'Casey: Writer at Work reconstructs a life committed to writing as a moral endeavour. While acknowledging that much of O'Casey's work was uneven, flawed, and overambitious, Murray argues that at its best it was infused with a passion and generosity that place it among the best bodies of drama in the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved