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 Biography of Sean O'Casey
840 words, approx. 3 pages
 The Irish dramatist Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) is considered the greatest of the Irish playwrights who began writing after World War I. Sean O'Casey was born John Casey on March 31, 1880, the youngest of a large family living in a Dublin slum. He... summary from source:
Biography of Sean O'Casey
11,775 words, approx. 39 pages
 Sean O'Casey's considerable literary achievements have been overshadowed by the contentious political circumstances which informed much of his art as well as his life. Long recognized as the first and best dramatist of the Dublin tenements during the... 
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 O'Casey, Sean
152 words, approx. 1 pages(born March 30, 1880, Dublin, Ire.—died Sept. 18, 1964, Torquay, Devon, Eng.) Irish playwright. Born to a poor Protestant family, he educated himself and worked from age 14 at manual labour. He embraced the Irish nationalist cause, changed his... summary from source:
 Seán O’Casey Information
1,152 words, approx. 4 pages
Seán O'Casey (Irish: Seán Ó Cathasaigh) (30 March, 1880 – 18 September, 1964) was a major Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed nationalist and socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes....
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by David Krause
10,004 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, which was originally published in a different form in Krause's Sean O'Casey: The Man and His Work (1960), Krause argues that O'Casey's first four plays articulate an antiheroic condemnation of war.
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Critical Essay by Carol Kleiman
9,883 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Kleiman argues that O'Casey's plays express an absurdist view of life, but in a more humanistic tone than is registered in the works of Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, and other playwrights associated with the "Theater of the Absurd."
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Critical Essay by David Krause
7,861 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following excerpt, Krause describes the historical and religious contexts of Cock-a-Doodle Dandy in relation to the comedic themes expressed in the play.
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