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Sean O'Casey (Gill's Irish Lives).
Hugh Hunt
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Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Sean O'Casey (1880-1964), a self-educated Dublin labourer, first became famous as a dramatist when the Abbey Theatre staged 'The Shadown of a Gunman' in 1923. Two more masterly plays based on the Irish troubles of the period followed, 'Juno and the Paycock' and 'The Plough and the Stars'. After a bitter dispute with W.B. Yeats over the Abbey Theatre's rejection of 'The Silver Tassie', O'Casey, who had moved to London in 1926, decided never to return to Ireland. In England he continued to write plays, experimenting all the time in new forms of drama, to compile his autobiographies and to ... Read more
Sean O'Casey (1880-1964), a self-educated Dublin labourer, first became famous as a dramatist when the Abbey Theatre staged 'The Shadown of a Gunman' in 1923. Two more masterly plays based on the Irish troubles of the period followed, 'Juno and the Paycock' and 'The Plough and the Stars'. After a bitter dispute with W.B. Yeats over the Abbey Theatre's rejection of 'The Silver Tassie', O'Casey, who had moved to London in 1926, decided never to return to Ireland. In England he continued to write plays, experimenting all the time in new forms of drama, to compile his autobiographies and to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9780717126880
SKU
KKD0003685
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Hugh Hunt
Hugh Hunt was associated with the Abbey Theatre for more than forty years, from the time when W.B. Yeats first invited him to become Director of Plays in 1935. He was also Professor of Drama at Manchester University and was co-author of three plays with Frank O'Connor. He was the author of 'The Abbey: Ireland's National Theatre 1904-79'.
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