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
SKU | 9780571195527 |
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ISBN | 9780571195527 |
Publisher | Novels |