Sean O'Casey: Writer at Work - A Biography

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, Nov 8, 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - 608 pages
Se?O'Casey was the quintessential Dublin playwright. In critical works that include his Dublin Trilogy - The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, and The Plough and the Stars - he portrayed the traumatic birth of a nation and delved into the Irish national character. Christopher Murray's Se?O'Casey: Writer at Work takes a fresh look at the last of the great writers of the Irish literary revival.
 

Contents

PRECONCEPTIONS
1
PART 1 FIRST THINGS
9
PART 2 THE DUBLIN PLAYS
99
PART 3 LONDON NEW YORK LONDON
181
PART 4 TOUGHING IT OUT IN DEVON
253
PART 5 LAST THINGS
345
AFTERLIFE
440
List of Abbreviations
451
Notes
452
Selected Bibliography
542
Index
553
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Christopher Murray is associate professor of drama and theatre history at University College Dublin. He is the author of Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Mirror Up to Nation.

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