In commemoration of O'Casey's fast approaching 80th birthday, David
Krause has written a warm and intelligent appraisal of O'Casey's
life and work. Here is a rounded portrait of the slum-born child,
one of five surviving in a family of thirteen, but afflicted with a
serious early eye infection. Until his fortieth year O'Casey took
an active part in Ireland's struggles. He was a follower of Jim
Larkin, labor leader, rather than part of the Irish cultural
movement, as is evident in his fascinating autobiography. Then and
always he identified himself with the proletariat, and even when
the Abbey Theatre was putting on successive plays of his, O'Casey
worked at hod-carrying or brick layers' jobs. Yeats and Lady
Gregory gave him great and early encouragement, out a crisis was
reached when the Abbey Theatre turned down The Silver Tassie. Mr.
Krause ??andles fairly and well this shattering incident, making
quite clear how Yeats, at that particular point in his own
development, could not like O'Casey's robust and tempestuous
nature. It is to the credit of both that ultimately they buried the
hatchet. Each had sincere admiration for the other's genius. With
O'Casey's move to England, a change came over his nature and work.
He became interested in expressionistic forms and stressed the
??omic accent. Mr. Krause's frame of reference is large and mature
enough to take in the ??aradoxical quality of life. Without being a
chronological biography, this places O'Casey in his setting in
Ireland and England. It is an estimable work, which should be
welcomed ??y O'Casey students and others interested in the drama
and in good critical writing related to it. (Kirkus Reviews)
This volume was created to mark the centenary of the birth of Sean
O'Casey. It covers every aspect of his life and work, with essays
from leading scholars in the field of O'Casey studies: Ronald
Ayling, Bernard Benstock, Mary FitzGerald, David Krause, Robert G.
Lowery, William J. Maroldo, Alan Simp son and Stanley Weintraub, to
gether with a Chronology and a list of productions of O'Casey's
plays, both by Robert G. Lowery. The subjects covered include
O'Casey's relations with the Abbey Theatre, Lady Gregory, W. B.
Yeats, and Bernard Shaw together with assessments of the influence
that James Joyce, politics, religion and Ireland had on the play
wright and his plays.
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