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Sean O’Casey: An Annual Bibliography

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O’Casey Annual No. 3

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This bibliography is intended to cover items from one year to the next. Occasionally, though, I come across items which date further back than one year. These are included in this instalment.

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Bibliographies

  • Greaves, C. Desmond, Sean O’Casey: Politics and Art (London: Lawrence amp; Wishart; Atlantic Highlands, N. J.: Humanities Press, 1979) pp. 197–9.

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  • Stapelberg, Peter, Sean O’Casey und das deutschsprachige Theater (1949–1974) (Frankfurt and Bern: Lang, 1979) pp. 342–85.

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II Criticism

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  • Atkinson, Brooks, Sean O’Casey from Times Past, ed. Robert G. Lowery (London: Macmillan, 1981; New York: Barnes and Noble, 1982 ).

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  • Bennett, Benjamin, Modern Drama and German Classicism: Renaissance from Lessing to Brecht (Ithaca and London: Cornell Universty Press, 1979) pp. 309–14 [Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars].

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  • Guernsey, Otis L., ed., The Best Plays of 1980–1981 (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1981) p. 67 [Juno and the Paycock]; p. 421 [Ah, Men, musical revue based on the views of O’Casey and others].

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  • Hayley, Barbara, ed., Sean O’Casey: Juno and the Paycock. York Notes (London: Longman; Beirut: York Press, 1981 ).

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  • Mili, Gjon, Photographs and Recollections (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1980) pp. 98–103.

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  • Willis, John, ed., Theatre World, 1979–80 Season (New York: Crown Publishers, 1981) p. 91 [The Shadow of a Gunman]; p. 145 [A Pound on Demand and Bedtime Story]; p. 155 [Bedtime Story].

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  • Ayling, Ronald, “Portrait of the Artist as a Slum Gutter-Snipe”, O’Casey Annual (London), no. 1 (1982) 3–16.

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  • Benstock, Bernard, “Sean O’Casey’s Little Cloud”, O’Casey Annual (London), no. 1 (1982) 64–72.

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  • Benstock, Bernard, “Sean O’Casey: Roots and Branches”, O’Casey Annual (London), no. 1 (1982) 212–23 [Review article on the special 1980 issue of Irish University Review].

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  • Benstock, Bernard, “The Harvest Festival”, O’Casey Annual (London), no. I (1982) 224–8 [Review article].

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  • Buggy, Tom, “Sean O’Casey’s Dublin”, O’Casey Annual (London), no. 1 (1982) 88–96.

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  • Cusack, Cyril, “The Irish Actor”, Prompts: Bulletin of the Irish Theatre Archive (Dublin), no. 2 (Sept. 1981) 3–4 [Contrasts two productions of Juno and the Paycock by the Abbey Theatre and by the Royal Shakespeare Company].

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  • Durbach, Errol, “Book Reviews”, Modern Drama 24 (June 1981) 234–6 [Review article on Sean O’Casey’s Drama: Verisimilitude and Vision by Ronald G. Rollins; and O’Casey’s Satiric Vision by B. L. Smith].

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  • Fitzgerald, Mary, “How the Abbey Said No: Readers’ Reports and the Rejection of The Silver Tassie”, O’Casey Annual (London), no. I (1982) 73–87.

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  • Gibbons, Renee, “The Green Crow Caws”, O’Casey Annual (London), no. 1 (1982) 232–3 [Review article on the record].

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  • Kosok, Heinz, “The Three Versions of Red Roses for Me”, O’Casey Annual (London), no. I (1982) 141–7.

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  • Murray, Christopher, “Three Letters from Lady Gregory”, Prompts: Bulletin of the Irish Theatre Archive (Dublin), no. 1 (June 1981) 5–7 [Makes references to O’Casey’s association with Lady Gregory and Michael J. Dolan].

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  • O’Riordan, John, “Inoffensive Tune”, Spectator (London), (24 Oct. 1981) 17 [Letter to the Editor refuting the suggestion that ‘Lilliburlero’, as the anthem of Protestant Ireland, is offensive to Irish Roman Catholics by citing its appearance in The Drums of Father Ned]. See correspondence by Patrick Bury, (31 Oct. 1981) 20; and Stan Gebler Davies, (7 Nov. 1981 ) 30.

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  • O’Valle, Violet M., “Melville, O’Casey, and Cock-a-Doodle Dandy”, O’Casey Annual (London), no. 1 (1982) 167–79.

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  • Schrank, Bernice, “Th’ Nakedness o’ th’ Times: Dressing-up in The Plough and the Stars”, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 7 (Dec. 1981) 5–20 [In this play O’Casey uses the characters’ concern about clothing to indicate their inarticulate aspirations].

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  • Sexton, Maire, “W. B. Yeats, Wilfred Owen and Sean O’Casey”, Studies (Dublin), 70 (Spring 1981) 88–95.

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Mikhail, E.H. (1984). Sean O’Casey: An Annual Bibliography. In: Lowery, R.G. (eds) O’Casey Annual No. 3. Macmillan Literary Annuals. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06212-6_7

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