Sean O'Casey in Context

James Moran (University of Nottingham)

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Cambridge University Press
10 July 2025

Theatre direction & production; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Literary reference works; Gender studies, gender groups

Series: Literature in Context

Sean O'Casey is one of Ireland's best-known writers. He is the most frequently performed playwright in the history of the Irish National Theatre, and his work is often revived onstage elsewhere. O'Casey is also widely studied in schools, colleges, and universities in the English-speaking world. This book offers a new contextualisation of this famous writer's work, revisiting his association with Irish nationalism, historical revisionism, and celebrated contemporaries such as W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory. The volume also brings O'Casey's work into contact with topics including disability studies, gender and sexuality, post-colonialism, ecocriticism, and race. Sean O'Casey in Context explores a number of existing ideas about O'Casey in the light of new academic developments, and updates our understanding of this important writer by taking into account recent scholarly thinking and a range of theatrical productions from around the globe.

Edited by: James Moran (University of Nottingham)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009304207
ISBN 10: 1009304208
Series: Literature in Context
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 10 July 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

James Moran is Professor of Modern English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham. His most recent works include Modernists and the Theatre (Bloomsbury, 2022), The Theatre of Fake News (Anthem, 2022), and Modern Tragedy (Bloomsbury, 2023). He also edited a version of G. Bernard Shaw's Playlets (Oxford University Press, 2021). He is a winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize and has been awarded a mid-career fellowship by the British Academy. In recent years he has been a visiting fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, the D. H. Lawrence lecturer at the University of New Mexico, and the Robert Gould Shaw fellow at Harvard University.