The Plough and the Stars

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Author:

O'Casey, Sean

ISBN:

978-0-571-21232-3

Publication Date:

Jul 2005

Publisher:

Faber & Faber, Incorporated

Imprint:

Faber & Faber Plays

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

AUD $24.99

Book Description:

This educational edition, with the full play text and an introduction to the playwright, features a detailed analysis of the language, structure and characters of the play, and textual notes explaining difficult words and references. It contains: - The full playtext - An introduction to the playwright, his background and his work - A detailed analysis of language, structure and characters in the play - Features of performance - Textual notes...
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Book Details

Pages:	160
Detailed Subjects:	Literary Criticism / Drama
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	12.601 x 19.799 x 1.001 cm
Book Weight:	0.12 Kilograms

Author Biography

O'Casey, Sean (Author)

Unlike the directors of the Abbey Theatre, Sean O'Casey was slum-born and bred, self-educated, and deeply involved in the political and labor ferment that preceded Irish independence. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, on March 30, 1880. His famous group of realistic plays produced at the Abbey form, in effect, a commentary on each stage of the independence movement. The melodramatic The Shadow of a Gunman (1923), the first to be staged, deals with the guerrilla war conducted by the IRA until the peace treaty was signed in 1921. In the 1930s, O'Casey served as a drama critic for London's Time and Tide, producing a group of scathing comments on West End conventionality, which have been published as The Flying Wasp (1937). Sean O'Casey died in 1964.

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