Author: Sean O'Casey
Publisher:
Published: 2011-07-15
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780981967363
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Juno Boyle, a hard-working Dublin (Ireland) tenement dweller whose husband, 'Captain' Jack Boyle, is unwilling to get a job and spends most of his day swilling booze and reminiscing about the past with his parasitic pal, Joxer. Juno is a good woman who does the best she can for her family, but in many ways, she is the enabler who allows Jack to indulge in his irresponsible lifestyle. Their daughter, Mary, who wants to better herself, makes every effort to move out of the poverty in which the family is mirred. Mary, however is now out on strike and her brother, Johnny, injured in Republican fighting, has become another drain on the family's resources. Juno's hopes for her daughter are raised when she brings home a young man who delivers unexpected and promising news, thereby setting of a series of developments that, in turn, become both funny and dispiriting.
Author: John O'Riordan
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1984-06-18
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 1349070939
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sally Seifert
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2016-02-23
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 366815919X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Theater Studies, Dance, grade: 1,0, Trinity College Dublin (Drama Department), course: Theater and Ireland, language: English, abstract: Having read the Dublin Trilogy consisting of "The Shadow of a Gunman" (1923), "Juno and the Paycock" (1924) and "The Plough and the Stars" (1926), I understand that Irish history in the 1910’s and 1920’s was formative to the author Sean O’Casey. Firstly, the roots of expressionism, which can be found in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, shall be outlined because they closely resemble the situation out of which O’Casey’s work arises. Secondly, the characteristics of this rhetoric style are to be explained. Using "Juno and the Paycock" as an object, the aforesaid characteristics are then to be analysed in context. In a final step, this research shall be summarised, hoping to prove that O’Casey’s use of expressionism emphasises his general topic, the dangers of ideology, through subjectification. Just like many of his fellow playwrights O'Casey concerned himself with “the [Irish] War of Independence, the [Irish] Civil War, the Easter Rising and World War One.” Unlike many however, O’Casey was especially interested in the Irish working class, being very much aware of the impact these political events had in every individual’s reality. Whilst Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats, for instance, propagandized Irish nationalism through plays such as "Cathleen Ni Houlihan" (1902), O’Casey depicted the actual suffering caused. Yet, he thereby not only made use of realism, but also of expressionism, which is exactly what this essay shall be focussing on.
Author: Birgit Wilpers
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2010-08-30
Total Pages: 6
ISBN-13: 3640691768
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Paderborn (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Analysekurs, language: English, abstract: Charles Bentham is an important figure in the play Juno and the Paycock, although he only appears in person during the end of Act I and principally in Act II. He is the bearer of the good news, i. e. the heritage, which is supposed to change the life of the whole Boyle family. However, he also brings distress to the family in the form of the illegitimate child Mary is expecting, of which he is the father, and due to this fact the family will lose the heritage as Bentham drew up the will in the wrong manner. In this sense, he plays an ambivalent, but important role for the development of the action in the play.
Author: Sean O'Casey
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The shadow of a gunman - Juno and the paycock - The plough and the stars - The silver Tassie - Red roses for me - Cock-a-doodle dandy - The bishop's bonfire.
Author: Richard Allen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1134477228
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This new collection of writings on Alfred Hitchcock considers Hitchcock both in his time and as a continuing influence on filmmakers, films and film theory. The contributions, who include leading scholars such as Slavoj Zizek, Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen, and James Naremore, discuss canonical films such as Notorious and The Birds alongside lesser-known works including Juno and the Paycock and Frenzy. Articles are grouped into four thematic sections: 'Authorship and Aesthetics' examines Hitchcock as auteur and investigates central topics in Hitchcockian aesthetics. 'French Hitchcock' looks at Hitchcock's influence on filmmakers such as Chabrol, Truffaut and Rohmer, and how film critics such as Bazin and Deleuze have engaged with Hitchcock's work. 'Poetics and Politics of Identity' explores the representation of personal and political in Hitchcock's work. The final section, 'Death and Transfiguration' addresses the manner in which the spectacle and figuration of death haunts the narrative universe of Hitchcock's films, in particular his subversive masterpiece Psycho.
Author: Sean O'Casey
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780571195527
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume contains the three plays commonly recognized as the height of O'Casey's achievement as a playwright. His tragi-comedy has relevance to the violent politics in the North and the post-nationalist bewilderments in the Republic.