Titlebook: Sean O’Casey; Modern Judgements Ronald Ayling Book 1969 Macmillan Publishers Limited 1969 Britain.history of literature.literature.Seán O’C

BUDGE

In Sean O’Casey’s Golden Days (1965)cademic cliché experts who preferred the correctness of .. That situation remains unchanged. The modern repertoire is still formed by the promulgation of clichés which it is sacrilegious to question and which may still be the . of criticism in the year 2500.

myelography

Ever a Fighter: , (1960)our most comprehensive dramatic document on peace. Peace and conflict are interdependent; a true diagnosis of peace will expose the dominant forces battling beneath its apparent calm; and this is just what O’Casey did in ., patterning out the life of peace-time London in a series of ritual-conflicts.

Pastry

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alleviate

Iatrogenic

A Dramatist of New-born Ireland (1927)ius. We throw brickbats readily, and compliments with difficulty, and I am not sure that it is not, when all is said, better for men of talent or genius to get more than a fair share of brickbats at first — we invariably recall them eventually — than to get more than a fair share of compliments. To

amputation

O’Casey’s Photographic Realism (1929)nge was a poet, with all the attributes of a poet; O’Casey is a photographic artist who retouches his films with an acid pencil to produce an effect of grotesque satire. All his characters are taken directly from the Dublin slums, placed in positions and surroundings which give the appearance of car

Banister

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The Silver Tassie (1929)bserve its facets of tragedy, comedy, and open farce that their flashing becomes at last one flash and perhaps, by imaginative and symbolic transition, one spiritual light. Unity is to spring from diversity. The elements of drama are to be compounded — not separated, not mixed.