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Sean O'Casey
Biography:
Born 1880 in Dublin into an impoverished
Protestant family. He was not a healthy child. Trachoma permanently
damaged his eyesight and interrupted his education. Was briefly a part of
the Irish Citizen Army but quit in 1914 under protest against their
anti-union beliefs. His first publication was The Story of Thomas Ashe
(1917). It was about a friend in the Irish Citizen Army who died on hunger
strike. His first three submissions to the Abbey Theatre were rejected.
They finally accepted The Shadow of a Gunman (1923) and Juno and
the Paycock (1924). His later works became more experimental and
impressionistic. He was forced to leave Ireland after his anti-war drama The
Plough and the Stars (1926) provoked a full-scale riot. His later
works include The Silver Tassie (1929), Cockadoodle Dandy
(1949), and The Bishop's Bonfire (1955). He also wrote essays, such
as The Flying Wasp (1936), and was awarded the Hawthornden Prize in
1926. Died 1964. |
Autobiographies:
Inishfallen, Fare Thee Well Rose and Crown Sunset and Evening Star
Paperback (May 1984)
$10.95
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The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays:
The Countess Cathleen and Cock-A-Doodle Dandy
Paperback - 224 pages (May 1997) $7.96
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Plays One: Juno and the
Paycock, Within the Gates, Red Roses for Me, Cock-A-Doodle Dandy
Paperback - 448 pages
(January 1999) $13.56
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Plays Two:
The Shadow of a Gunman, the Plough and the Stars, the Silver Tassie, Purple Dust, Hall of Healing
Paperback - 448 pages
(January 1999) $13.56
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 Three Plays:
Juno and the Paycock, The Shadow of a Gunman and The Plow and the Stars
Paperback (October 1969)
$7.96
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Cock-A-Doodle Dandy
Hardcover (April 1991) $24.95
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Drums Under the
Window
Paperback $5.25
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I Knock at the
Door
Paperback $5.25
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Largely Literary Designs:
The World's a Stage and Most of Us Are Desperately Unrehearsed
Hardcover (March 1998)
$7.98
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The Letters of Sean
O'Casey, 1955-58
Hardcover Vol 003 (July
1989) $49.95
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Niall:
A Lament
Hardcover (June 1991)
$28.95
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Purple
Dust
Paperback $5.25 |
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