Seán O'Casey (1880–1964)
Autore di Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock, The Shadow of a Gunman, The Plough and the Stars
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Opere di Seán O'Casey
Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock, The Shadow of a Gunman, The Plough and the Stars (1957) 827 copie
Autobiographies I: I Knock at the Door, Pictures in the Hallway, and Drums Under the Windows (1963) 58 copie
Autobiographies II: Inishfallen, Fare Thee Well, Rose and Crown, Sunset and Evening Star Star (1963) 51 copie
Sean O'Casey: Plays 2: The Shadow of a Gunman, The Plough and the Stars, The Silver Tassie, Purple Dust, Hall of… (1998) 24 copie
Collected Plays, Volume I: Juno and the Paycock, The Shadow of a Gunman, The Plough and the Stars, A Pound on Demand,… (1949) 9 copie
Six Plays - Sean O'Casey - The Franklin Library - Kenneth Francis Dewey Illustrations - Limited Edition (1980) 3 copie
The End of the Beginning 3 copie
Autobiographies III: Rose and Crown and Sunset and Evening Star (Sean O'Casey autobiography) 2 copie
Stücke 1 Dubliner Triologie: Der Rebell, der keiner war. Juno und der Pfau. Der Pflug und die Sterne. (1999) 2 copie
The Flying Wasp 2 copie
Théâtre, tome 3 : L'Ombre d'un franc-tireur - Les Tambours du père Ned - Le Dispensaire (1991) 2 copie
Sean O'Casey: Plays 1 1 copia
Three Plays By Sean o'Casey 1 copia
Drámák 1 copia
Largely Literary Designs: The World's a Stage and Most of Us Are Desperately Unrehearsed (1998) 1 copia
Sean O'Casey : plays 1 copia
Three Plays 1 copia
A Pound on Demand: A Play 1 copia
Bedtime Story 1 copia
The Sean O'Casey Reader 1 copia
Das Sean O'Casey Lesebuch 1 copia
Sağlık Yurdu 1 copia
Teatro 1 copia
The Job 1 copia
Opere correlate
Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco (1960) — Collaboratore — 110 copie
Cavalcade of comedy; 21 brilliant comedies from Jonson and Wycherley to Thurber and Coward (1953) — Collaboratore — 97 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- O'Casey, Seán
- Nome legale
- Casey, John (birth)
- Altri nomi
- Ó Cathasaigh, Seán
- Data di nascita
- 1880-03-30
- Data di morte
- 1964-09-18
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Golders Green Crematorium, London, England, UK
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Ireland
- Luogo di nascita
- Dublin, Ireland
- Luogo di morte
- Torquay, Devon, England, UK
- Attività lavorative
- playwright
dramatist
memoirist - Relazioni
- O'Casey, Eileen (wife)
- Organizzazioni
- Irish Citizen Army
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Hawthornden Prize (1927)
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I have a lot more context for this play now, my second time through it, and also a lot to say about bloodlust and sacrifice and being a decent person, but if I indulged, I'd be ranting through spoilers and possibly for hours, so maybe now is not the time.
Read in my hardcover of "Five Great Modern Irish Plays" & listened to a full cast audio production on YouTube (introduced by the author).
This play is set in 1922 Dublin during the tail end of the Irish War of Independence and is about the Boyle family. While 'Captain' Jack Boyle, the father, is something of a buffoon, this is by no means a comedy. Juno Boyle, the mother, is struggling to keep the family going while her husband, unemployed, drinks with his 'butty' Joxer; the son Johnny, who lost an arm in the Easter Rising of 1916, is on the verge of a nervous breakdown; and the daughter Mary has thrown over her young man Jerry Devine. In case you were wondering, 'paycock' is the word "peacock" pronounced with an Irish accent.
I found this play to be tragic in a Shakespearean sense --while it looks like things might improve for the family early on, in the end everything is much much worse. I wonder if O'Casey was trying to say that independent Ireland ended up worse off than they had been before... .… (altro)
This play is set in 1922 Dublin during the tail end of the Irish War of Independence and is about the Boyle family. While 'Captain' Jack Boyle, the father, is something of a buffoon, this is by no means a comedy. Juno Boyle, the mother, is struggling to keep the family going while her husband, unemployed, drinks with his 'butty' Joxer; the son Johnny, who lost an arm in the Easter Rising of 1916, is on the verge of a nervous breakdown; and the daughter Mary has thrown over her young man Jerry Devine. In case you were wondering, 'paycock' is the word "peacock" pronounced with an Irish accent.
I found this play to be tragic in a Shakespearean sense --
Parts of these plays could almost be an Irish version of The Honeymooners– if so much more weren't at stake, and people weren't run-down and dying.
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This play is set in 1922 Dublin during the tail end of the Irish War of Independence and is about the Boyle family. While 'Captain' Jack Boyle, the father, is something of a buffoon, this is by no means a comedy. Juno Boyle, the mother, is struggling to keep the family going while her husband, unemployed, drinks with his 'butty' Joxer; the son Johnny, who lost an arm in the Easter Rising of 1916, is on the verge of a nervous breakdown; and the daughter Mary has thrown over her young man Jerry Devine. In case you were wondering, 'paycock' is the word "peacock" pronounced with an Irish accent.
I found this play to be tragic in a Shakespearean sense --