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"From the perspective of the 1990s O'Casey stands out as Ireland's greatest playwright of the century. He it was who most passionately, most powerfully and most memorably dramatized the traumatic birth of the nation. He it was who gave to the twentieth-century theatre a greater range of vivid and original characters, male and female, than any other Irish playwright."
--Christopher Murray, from "Twentieth-Century Irish Drama"
"What's astonishing about these dramas, apart from the sheer richness and generosity of their humanity, is their ability, in Shakespeare's great phrase, 'to move wild laughter in the throat of death'."
--"Daily Telegraph", London
--Christopher Murray, from "Twentieth-Century Irish Drama"
"What's astonishing about these dramas, apart from the sheer richness and generosity of their humanity, is their ability, in Shakespeare's great phrase, 'to move wild laughter in the throat of death'."
--"Daily Telegraph", London
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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.
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.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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As an introduction to one of the most famous Irish playwrights, this book is satisfactory. Christopher Murray does a sterling job in giving the biographical detail needed. O'Casey has often been criticised for the poor way in which the plays are written and constructed, particularly 'The Shadow of a Gunman.' However, it was never intended as a literary masterpiece, but rather for the message it send out. It perhaps goes without saying that a passable knowledge of Irish history, and especially the Easter Rising of 1916, is a must when studying O'Casey's work.
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as expected this is a good compilation of these classic plays
it is useful to see them together rather than each separately as it enables one to see the range and variety of work
it is useful to see them together rather than each separately as it enables one to see the range and variety of work
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Great and incisive and worth a read . If you are going to see these plays.
Then buy this book and refresh yourself with the penmanship of O'Casey
Then buy this book and refresh yourself with the penmanship of O'Casey
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