Three Dublin Plays: The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, & the Plough and the Stars - Paperback

$21.00

Three Dublin Plays: The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, & the Plough and the Stars - Paperback

Name: Three Dublin Plays: The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, & the Plough and the Stars - Paperback
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SKU: 9780571195527
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by Sean O'Casey

$21.00

Book Overview

The classic plays of the quintessential Dublin playwright

Three early plays by Sean O'Casey--arguably his three greatest--demonstrate vividly O'Casey's ability to convey the reality of life and the depth of human emotion, specifically in Dublin before and during the Irish civil war of 1922-23, but, truly, throughout the known universe. In mirroring the lives of the Dublin poor, from the tenement dwellers in The Shadow of a Gunman and Juno and the Paycock to the bricklayer, street vendor, and charwoman in The Plough and the Stars, Sean O'Casey conveys with urgency and eloquence the tiny details that create a total character as well as the terrors, large and small, that the constant threat of political violence inevitably brings. As Seamus Heaney has written, "O'Casey's characters are both down to earth and larger than life . . . His democratic genius was at one with his tragic understanding, and his recoil from tyranny and his compassion for the oppressed were an essential--as opposed to a moral and thematic--part of his art."

A new production of Juno and the Paycock will transfer from the Donmar Theatre in London to New York in September 2000.

ISBN	9780571195527
Author	Sean O'Casey
Publisher	St. Martins Press-3PL
Genre	Drama
Format	Paperback
Published	October 2000
Language	ENG- English
Pages	272
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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