Sean O'Casey in context / edited by James Moran, University of Nottingham.

Other author Moran, James, 1978- editor.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Copyright Date©2025
Descriptionxxvii, 462 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Dublin / Diarmaid Ferriter -- The Irish Revolution / Fearghal McGarry -- London / Lloyd Meadhbh Houston -- The Second World War / Susan Cannon Harris -- Devon / Christopher Collins -- Nationalism / Eugene McNulty -- Class / Michael Pierse -- Censorship / Brad Kent -- Women / Michelle C. Paull -- Gender and sexuality / Jodie Marley -- Disability / Elizabeth Grubgeld -- Race / James Moran -- Migration / Whitney Standlee -- Religion / Vicki Mahaffey -- Loss / Louise Lowe and Miriam Haughton -- W.B. Yeats / Charles I. Armstrong -- Lady Gregory / Eglantina Remport -- Bernard Shaw / Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel -- Eileen Carey (Eileen O'Casey) / James Moran -- Tomás Mac Anna / Alan Titley -- Seamus Deane / Joe Cleary -- Garry Hynes / Patrick Lonergan -- Theatrical emulators / Eamonn Jordan -- The Abbey Theatre / Chris Morash -- The Irish stage / Barry Houlihan -- The English stage / Peter James Harris -- Onstage in the USA / Tara Stubbs -- The French stage / Alexandra Poulain -- The German stage / Dieter Fuchs -- The Central-European stage / Ondřej Pilný -- The biography in performance / Soudabeh Ananisarab -- The autobiographies / Emmet O'Connor -- The letters / Christopher Murray -- Poetry, short stories, journalism and non-fiction / Niall Carson -- Seriality / Thirza Wakefield -- Experimentalism / Victor Merriman -- Modernism / Jean Chothia -- Revisionism / Shaun Richards -- Postcolonialism / Mark Quigley -- Ecocriticism / Eoin Flannery -- Tragedy / Nicholas Grene.
Abstract "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2024060128
ISBN9781009304207
ISBN1009304208 hardcover
ISBN9781009304184 paperback
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ISBNelectronic book