Collected Plays (Four-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Author: Sean O'Casey
Binding: Hardback
Published: Macmillan, 1950
Condition:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing, price clipped
Markings: Previous owner
Sean O’Casey’s Collected Plays four-volume set presents the complete dramatic works of one of Ireland’s most influential playwrights, chronicling the social and political upheavals of early 20th-century Dublin. This nonfiction collection includes landmark plays such as Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars, and The Shadow of a Gunman, illustrating O’Casey’s mastery of tragic realism and biting satire. He argues for the dignity of working-class life while exposing the destructive consequences of nationalism, poverty, and war. The volumes instruct readers in the rhythms of Irish speech, the tensions of domestic struggle, and the theatrical power of moral ambiguity.
Author: Sean O'Casey
Binding: Hardback
Published: Macmillan, 1950
Condition:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing, price clipped
Markings: Previous owner
Sean O’Casey’s Collected Plays four-volume set presents the complete dramatic works of one of Ireland’s most influential playwrights, chronicling the social and political upheavals of early 20th-century Dublin. This nonfiction collection includes landmark plays such as Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars, and The Shadow of a Gunman, illustrating O’Casey’s mastery of tragic realism and biting satire. He argues for the dignity of working-class life while exposing the destructive consequences of nationalism, poverty, and war. The volumes instruct readers in the rhythms of Irish speech, the tensions of domestic struggle, and the theatrical power of moral ambiguity.