Description: This next installment in the Faber Critical Guides series looks at Sean O'Casey, a renegade who came of age at the dawn of Ireland's fight for independence from Britain and championed the working class during the bleak years of the Great Depression. His controversial plays helped establish the reputation of the internationally renowned Abbey Theatre, where the productions of The Plough and the Stars and Juno and the Paycock were met with riots and vigorous protests. In Sean O'Casey, Christopher Murray examines the playwright's famed Dublin trilogy and elucidates the social context of the plays and the theatrical environment of the times -- crucial elements in understanding O'Casey's writing.

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