A large number of critics who have tried to penetrate the complexity of Sean O'Casey's theatrical works have been fighting against a matter which seems to reject every easy outline and label. They seem to be shaped by a deep will to experiment which leads the author to embrace theatrical forms and techniques very different from each other. This is why almost all of his plays appear full of contradictory elements and tendencies, traumatic breaks and bold innovations. After his "explosion" at the Abbey Theatre of Dublin with the vigorous realism of his trilogy, O'Casey abandons this reassuring haven â it was probably too reassuring for his restlessness â and begins his collection of "experimental" plays, starting with The Silver Tassie (1929) and going on with Within the Gates (1910), The Star Turns Red, 1940, Red Roses For Me (1912)...
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Studies on Sean O'Casey
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Critique littéraire anglaiseTable of contents
- Introductory pages
- Table of contents
- The Language of Sean O'Casey: A Text Analysis of The Shadow of a Gunman
- Juno and the Pavcock: Situation in Sean O'Casey's Theatre
- "... your humanity is Just as narrow as the humanity of the others"
- Art and Ethics in Juno and the Pavcock
- Sean O'Casey on the Absurdity of War: The Sliver Tassie
- The theatre of Sean O'Casey in the Context of Modernism (Sean O'Casey between Bertold Brecht and Samuel Beckett)
- Innovation and experiment in the theatre of Sean O'Casey
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