Overview
- Details the Irish socialistic tracks pursued by Bernard Shaw and Sean O’Casey that were arguably impacted by the executed James Connolly
- Unearths carefully the historical context
- Furthers the knowledge of Shaw, O’Casey, and Connolly
Part of the book series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries (BSC)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book details the Irish socialistic tracks pursued by Bernard Shaw and Sean O’Casey, mostly after 1916, that were arguably impacted by the executed James Connolly. The historical context is carefully unearthed, stretching from its 1894 roots via W. B. Yeats’ dream of Shaw as a menacing, yet grinning sewing machine, to Shaw’s and O’Casey’s 1928 masterworks. In the process, Shaw’s War Issues for Irishmen, Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress, The Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman, Saint Joan, The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, and O’Casey’s The Story of the Irish Citizen Army, The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars, and The Silver Tassie are reconsidered, revealing previously undiscovered textures to the masterworks. All of which provides a rethinking, a reconsideration of Ireland’s great drama of the 1920s, as well as furthering the knowledge of Shaw, O’Casey,and Connolly.
Reviews
“The book will be of great interest and value to those outside of Shavian interests. It is a fascinating and richly detailed account of the socialist and cultural history … . the book reminds us of the need for any study and full understanding of the period to consider class and labor politics at the heart of the political, social, and cultural events ofthe time.” (Barry Houlihan, SHAW The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies, Vol. 42 (1), 2022)
"The breadth of scholarship presented here is truly impressive not only in its scope but also in its deft integration. . . . This is a work that makes major contributions to several different fields: Irish culture, including early twentieth-century theatre, political and intellectual histories; Shaw studies; O'Casey scholarship; and the intersection of international socialist thought and nationalistic revolutionary action."(Gary Richardson, Professor of English, Mercer University, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel is the author of Bernard Shaw, W. T. Stead, and the New Journalism (2017) and Shaw, Synge, Connolly, and Socialist Provocation (2011). He is a professor of Humanities, Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bernard Shaw, Sean O’Casey, and the Dead James Connolly
Authors: Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel
Series Title: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74274-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74273-7Published: 22 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74276-8Published: 23 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74274-4Published: 21 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-5811
Series E-ISSN: 2634-582X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 286
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theatre History, Theatre and Performance Studies, History of Britain and Ireland