Sean O'Casey in Context
Sean O'Casey in Context
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USDSean O'Casey is one of Ireland's best-known writers. He is the most frequently performed playwright in the history of the Irish National Theatre, and his work is often revived onstage elsewhere. O'Casey is also widely studied in schools, colleges, and universities in the English-speaking world. This book offers a new contextualisation of this famous writer's work, revisiting his association with Irish nationalism, historical revisionism, and celebrated contemporaries such as W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory. The volume also brings O'Casey's work into contact with topics including disability studies, gender and sexuality, post-colonialism, ecocriticism, and race. Sean O'Casey in Context explores a number of existing ideas about O'Casey in the light of new academic developments, and updates our understanding of this important writer by taking into account recent scholarly thinking and a range of theatrical productions from around the globe.
- Examines the work of Sean O'Casey through the lens of modern concerns and methodologies
- Introduces readers to a number of unfamiliar/overlooked ideas about O'Casey, and updates earlier conceptions of the writer and his work
- Analyses O'Casey's work from a range of different disciplinary perspectives
Product details
July 2025Hardback
9781009304207
492 pages
229 × 152 × 27 mm
0.9kg
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Key Places and Events:
- 1. Dublin Diarmaid Ferriter
- 2. The Irish Revolution Fearghal McGarry
- 3. London Lloyd Meadhbh Houston
- 4. The Second World War Susan Cannon Harris
- 5. Devon Christopher Collins
- Part II. Social Contexts:
- 6. Nationalism Eugene McNulty
- 7. Class Michael Pierse
- 8. Censorship Brad Kent
- 9. Women Michelle Paull
- 10. Gender and sexuality Jodie Marley
- 11. Disability Elizabeth Grubgeld
- 12. Race James Moran
- 13. Migration Whitney Standlee
- 14. Religion Vicki Mahaffey
- 15. Loss Miriam Haughton and Louise Lowe
- Part III. Collaborators and Critics:16. W. B. Yeats Charles Armstrong
- 17. Lady Gregory Eglantina Remport
- 18. Bernard Shaw Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel
- 19. Eileen Carey (Eileen O'Casey) James Moran
- 20. Tomás Mac Anna Alan Titley
- 21. Seamus Deane Joe Cleary
- 22. Garry Hynes Patrick Lonergan
- 23. Theatrical emulators Eamonn Jordan
- Part IV. Performance Legacies:
- 24. The Abbey Theatre Chris Morash
- 25. The Irish stage Barry Houlihan
- 26. The English stage Peter Harris
- 27. Onstage in the USA Tara Stubbs
- 28. The French stage Alexandra Poulain
- 29. The German stage Dieter Fuchs
- 30. The Central European stage Ondřej Pilný
- 31. The biography in performance Soudabeh Ananisarab
- Part V. Non-Theatrical Writings:
- 32. The autobiographies Emmet O'Connor
- 33. The letters Christopher Murray
- 34. Poetry, short stories, journalism and non-fiction Niall Carson
- Part VI. Critical Understandings:
- 35. Seriality Thirza Wakefield
- 36. Experimentalism Victor Merriman
- 37. Modernism Jean Chothia
- 38. Revisionism Shaun Richards
- 39. Postcolonialism Mark Quigley
- 40. Ecocriticism Eoin Flannery
- 41. Tragedy Nicholas Grene.
