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Sean 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.

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Author:   James Moran (University of Nottingham)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781009304207

ISBN 10:   1009304208
Pages:   492
Publication Date:   10 July 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Part I. Key Places and Events: 1. Dublin Diarmaid Ferriter; 2. The Irish Revolution Fearghal McGarry; 3. London Lloyd Meadhbh Houston; 4. The Second World War Susan Cannon Harris; 5. Devon Christopher Collins; Part II. Social Contexts: 6. Nationalism Eugene McNulty; 7. Class Michael Pierse; 8. Censorship Brad Kent; 9. Women Michelle Paull; 10. Gender and sexuality Jodie Marley; 11. Disability Elizabeth Grubgeld; 12. Race James Moran; 13. Migration Whitney Standlee; 14. Religion Vicki Mahaffey; 15. Loss Miriam Haughton and Louise Lowe; Part III. Collaborators and Critics:16. W. B. Yeats Charles Armstrong; 17. Lady Gregory Eglantina Remport; 18. Bernard Shaw Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel; 19. Eileen Carey (Eileen O'Casey) James Moran; 20. Tomás Mac Anna Alan Titley; 21. Seamus Deane Joe Cleary; 22. Garry Hynes Patrick Lonergan; 23. Theatrical emulators Eamon Jordan; Part IV. Performance Legacies: 24. The Abbey Theatre Christopher Morash; 25. The Irish stage Barry Houlihan; 26. The English stage Peter Harris; 27. Onstage in the USA Tara Stubbs; 28. The French stage Alexandra Poulain; 29. The German stage Dieter Fuchs; 30. The Central-European stage Ondřej Pilný; 31. The biography in performance Soudabeh Ananisarab; Part V. Non-Theatrical Writings: 32. The autobiographies Emmet O'Connor; 33. The letters Christopher Murray; 34. Poetry, short stories, journalism and non-fiction Niall Carson; Part VI. Critical Understandings: 35. Seriality Thirza Wakefield; 36. Experimentalism Victor Merriman; 37. Modernism Jean Chothia; 38. Revisionism Shaun Richards; 39. Postcolonialism Mark Quigley; 40. Ecocriticism Eoin Flannery; 41. Tragedy Nicholas Grene.

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James Moran is Professor of Modern English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham. His most recent works include Modernists and the Theatre (Bloomsbury, 2022), The Theatre of Fake News (Anthem, 2022), and Modern Tragedy (Bloomsbury, 2023). He also edited a version of G. Bernard Shaw's Playlets (Oxford University Press, 2021). He is a winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize and has been awarded a mid-career fellowship by the British Academy. In recent years he has been a visiting fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, the D. H. Lawrence lecturer at the University of New Mexico, and the Robert Gould Shaw fellow at Harvard University.

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