Author: Sean O'CaseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Selected Plays of Sean O'Casey
Author: Sean O'CaseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Sean O'Casey
Author: Garry O'ConnorPublisher: New York : Atheneum
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Rising of Bella Casey
Author: Mary MorrissyPublisher: The O'Brien Press
ISBN: 1847176135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
'a wonderful book from one of our finest writers' Colum McCann Bella is a bright, clever girl who trains as a school teacher, determined to escape the limitations of her genteel impoverishment and become a "mistress of her own life". However, the manager of her school, the Rev Archibald Leeper, a married clergyman, develops a morbid attachment to her, which is to colour the rest of her life. Leeper places Bella in an untenable position; her only escape is to seduce a young army corporal, Nicholas Beaver, to hide the fact that her reputation has been ruined by the clergyman. She marries Nicholas and they have five children. However, when Nicholas dies at the age of 40 from syphilis, Bella realizes belatedly that she is not the only one who has been keeping sexual secrets. Bella Casey was the sister of the playwright, Sean O'Casey. Tellingly, though, her brother chose to kill her off prematurely in his autobiography – at least 10 years before her actual demise.
The Sean O'Casey Review
Author: 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.
Five One-Act Plays
Author: Sean O'CaseyPublisher: Gill & MacMillan
ISBN: 9780717117765
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The comedy 'The End of the Beginning' and the sketch 'A Pound on Demand' were both published in 1934 as part of the collection of essays, verse and fiction, entitled 'Windfalls'. 'Hall of Healing, A Sincerious Farce', 'Bedtime Story' and 'Time to Go, A Morality Comedy', were written in 1951.
Three Plays
Author: Sean O'CaseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Inishfallen, Fare Thee Well, 1917-1926
Author: Sean O'CaseyEssays on Sean O’Casey’s Autobiographies
Author: Robert G. LoweryPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349047465
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Theatre of Sean O'Casey
Author: James MoranPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408165961
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
This Critical Companion to the work of one of Ireland's most famous and controversial playwrights, Sean O'Casey, is the first major study of the playwright's work to consider his oeuvre and the archival material that has appeared during the last decade. Published ahead of the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland with which O'Casey's most famous plays are associated, it provides a clear and detailed study of the work in context and performance. James Moran shows that O'Casey not only remains the most performed playwright at Ireland's national theatre, but that the playwright was also one of the most controversial and divisive literary figures, whose work caused riots and who alienated many of his supporters. Since the start of the 'Troubles' in the North of Ireland, his work has been associated with Irish historical revisionism, and has become the subject of debate about Irish nationalism and revolutionary history. Moran's admirably clear study considers the writer's plays, autobiographical writings and essays, paying special attention to the Dublin trilogy, The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, and The Plough and the Stars. It considers the work produced in exile, during the war and the late plays. The Companion also features a number of interviews and essays by other leading scholars and practitioners, including Garry Hynes, Victor Merriman and Paul Murphy, which provide further critical perspectives on the work.