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Sean O'Casey
Christopher Murray
其他書名
Writer at Work : a Biography
出版Gill & Macmillan Ltd, 2004
主題Biography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Drama
ISBN07171275089780717127504
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=oozbw4RuwocC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Christopher Murray's work on Sean O'Casey is a critical biography. In addition to the normal biographical elements, Dr Murray provides a strong interpretative context for the life. For example, he looks afresh at the Dublin of the 1880s and 1890s in order to provide an updated background to O'Casey's childhood. He pays a great deal of attention to the political situation from 1880 to 1922, setting it against O'Casey's own treatment in his six volumes of autobiography. In general he attempts to establish O'Casey's Ireland.This leads naturally to a fresh examination of the great Dublin trilogy, The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars, the three works on which O'Casey's reputation stands. The rejection of his next play, The Silver Tassie, by the Abbey Theatre precipitated O'Casey's move to England.