Abstract
O’Casey’s next full-length play is a significant plunge into the field of serio-comic fantasy: an anti-fascist parable that is more than just a political extravaganza or ‘fancied page of history’; a future warning whose urgency is even more pressing than Shaw’s in Heartbreak House or Geneva; in design and texture, differently styled, and though lacking, ultimately, the epic strength of Shaw’s fantasias, it more than compensates for the piquancy of its full-blooded onslaught on national complacency and its vision of a magical Armageddon.
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© 1984 John O’Riordan
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O’Riordan, J. (1984). The Star Turns Red (1940): a Futuristic Extravaganza. In: A Guide to O’Casey’s Plays. Macmillan Studies in Anglo-Irish Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07093-0_11
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