{"product_id":"sean-ocasey-in-context-hardback-9781009304207","title":"Sean O'Casey in Context (Hardback) 9781009304207","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSean O'Casey in Context\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSean O'Casey is one of Ireland's best-known playwrights. This book examines his work from a range of new, varying perspectives.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames Moran (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009304207, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 July 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e492 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 3.1 cm, 0.85 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSean O'Casey is one of Ireland's best-known writers. He is the most frequently performed playwright in the history of the Irish National Theatre, and his work is often revived onstage elsewhere. O'Casey is also widely studied in schools, colleges, and universities in the English-speaking world. This book offers a new contextualisation of this famous writer's work, revisiting his association with Irish nationalism, historical revisionism, and celebrated contemporaries such as W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory. The volume also brings O'Casey's work into contact with topics including disability studies, gender and sexuality, post-colonialism, ecocriticism, and race. Sean O'Casey in Context explores a number of existing ideas about O'Casey in the light of new academic developments, and updates our understanding of this important writer by taking into account recent scholarly thinking and a range of theatrical productions from around the globe.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Key Places and Events: 1. Dublin Diarmaid Ferriter\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Irish Revolution Fearghal McGarry\u003cbr\u003e 3. London Lloyd Meadhbh Houston\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Second World War Susan Cannon Harris\u003cbr\u003e 5. Devon Christopher Collins\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Social Contexts: 6. Nationalism Eugene McNulty\u003cbr\u003e 7. Class Michael Pierse\u003cbr\u003e 8. Censorship Brad Kent\u003cbr\u003e 9. Women Michelle Paull\u003cbr\u003e 10. Gender and sexuality Jodie Marley\u003cbr\u003e 11. Disability Elizabeth Grubgeld\u003cbr\u003e 12. Race James Moran\u003cbr\u003e 13. Migration Whitney Standlee\u003cbr\u003e 14. Religion Vicki Mahaffey\u003cbr\u003e 15. Loss Miriam Haughton and Louise Lowe\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Collaborators and Critics:16. W. B. Yeats Charles Armstrong\u003cbr\u003e 17. Lady Gregory Eglantina Remport\u003cbr\u003e 18. Bernard Shaw Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel\u003cbr\u003e 19. Eileen Carey (Eileen O'Casey) James Moran\u003cbr\u003e 20. Tomás Mac Anna Alan Titley\u003cbr\u003e 21. Seamus Deane Joe Cleary\u003cbr\u003e 22. Garry Hynes Patrick Lonergan\u003cbr\u003e 23. Theatrical emulators Eamonn Jordan\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Performance Legacies: 24. The Abbey Theatre Chris Morash\u003cbr\u003e 25. The Irish stage Barry Houlihan\u003cbr\u003e 26. The English stage Peter Harris\u003cbr\u003e 27. Onstage in the USA Tara Stubbs\u003cbr\u003e 28. The French stage Alexandra Poulain\u003cbr\u003e 29. The German stage Dieter Fuchs\u003cbr\u003e 30. The Central European stage Ondřej Pilný\u003cbr\u003e 31. The biography in performance Soudabeh Ananisarab\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Non-Theatrical Writings: 32. The autobiographies Emmet O'Connor\u003cbr\u003e 33. The letters Christopher Murray\u003cbr\u003e 34. Poetry, short stories, journalism and non-fiction Niall Carson\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Critical Understandings: 35. Seriality Thirza Wakefield\u003cbr\u003e 36. Experimentalism Victor Merriman\u003cbr\u003e 37. Modernism Jean Chothia\u003cbr\u003e 38. Revisionism Shaun Richards\u003cbr\u003e 39. Postcolonialism Mark Quigley\u003cbr\u003e 40. Ecocriticism Eoin Flannery\u003cbr\u003e 41. 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