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O’Casey’s next play, his familiar two-acter and first acknowledged triumph by the Abbey Theatre, bears witness to the ugly sphere of worsening Anglo-Irish relations and portrays his native Ireland, in support of Yeatsian metaphorical claims, as ‘a fool-driven’ and ‘dragon-guarded land’.
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O’Riordan, J. (1984). The Shadow of a Gunman (1923): Kaleidoscope of the Troubles. 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_2
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