"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 reassess his work"--
Sean 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 at 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, postcolonialism, 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.
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 reassess his work.
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Sean O'Casey is one of Ireland's best-known playwrights. This book examines his work from a range of new, varying perspectives.
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. Tomįs 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 Ondej Pilnż;
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.
James Moran is Professor of Modern English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham. His most recent works include Modernists and the Theatre (Bloomsbury, 2022), The Theatre of Fake News (Anthem, 2022), and Modern Tragedy (Bloomsbury, 2023). He also edited a version of G. Bernard Shaw's Playlets (Oxford University Press, 2021). He is a winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize and has been awarded a mid-career fellowship by the British Academy. In recent years he has been a visiting fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, the D. H. Lawrence lecturer at the University of New Mexico, and the Robert Gould Shaw fellow at Harvard University.
