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Sean OCasey
Sean OCasey
1927 Married actress Eileen Carey Reynolds (who played Nora in The Plough and the Stars in London). 1930 Film of Juno and the Paycock, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, released. Copy of the film burned in the street by Irish nationalists in Limerick.
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13th child in a Protestant family Grim childhood, poor eye sight, and ill health positive thoughts Isnt everybody hurrahing for life? What are we going to do without it? (433)
Sean OCasey
Fathera clerk Motherraised her children alone after OCaseys father died Two of his most appealing characters are created by his mothers image. The first Irish playwright to write about the Dublin working classes.
Sean OCasey
Early in his adult life Gaelic League and the amateur theatre movement Early forties quick succession of three realistic plays about the slums of Dublin: The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, and The Plough and the Stars.
"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed." --Sean OCasey
Mary Boyle
- On strike for her principle - Blinded by appearances
A principle is a principle?
Mary - on strike Mary: Whats the use of belongin to a Trades Union if you wont stand up for your principles?... He stuck to his principles, an, no matter how you may argue, Ma, a principles a principle. (436) Juno I am goin to borry more, whatll he say when I tell him a principles a principle? Whatll we do if he refuses to give us any more on tick? (436)
A principle is a principle?
Johnny seriously injured while fighting for Irish
When Johnny asserts that he would fight again despite the loss of his arm, Juno Ah, you lost your best principle, me boy, when you lost your arm; them's the only sort of principles that's any good to a workin' man. (442)
A principle is a principle?
After knowing the news about legacy, Juno..
Every available spot is ornamented with huge vases filled with artificial flower (444) Juno said to Jack: You wont have to trouble about a job for a while, Jack. (443) During the funeral of Mrs.Tancreds son, the Boyle family plays the gramophone for fun:
Its nearly time we had a little less respect for the dead, an a little more regard for the livin.said Juno. (450)
The Anglo-Irish Treaty arose from the AngloIrish War (or "Irish War of Independence"), fought between Irish separatists (organized as the extra-legal Irish Republic) and the British government, from 1919-1921. The treaty provided for a fully self-governing Irish state, controlling most of Ireland's population and area, and having its own army and police.
Summary
the years of the Iris Civil War 1922 and 1923 in the slums or tenement part of the city
centers on the Boyle family
Summary
The family is told that they will inherit money from a distant relative who has died. The Boyles begin to borrow money and accumulate a great deal of debts. Two months later both the Boyles and their creditors learn that the legacy is uncollectible due to Bentham's clumsiness in drafting the will. Thenceforward Bentham loses his interest in Mary, although she is shortly to bear his child.
Summary
Juno finally realizes that Boyle will never take on his responsibilities as father and breadwinner and so she leaves him and sets up home with Mary.
Analysis (1)
the conflict between the dream world and the world of reality Showing how a character is stripped of his illusions and forced to face reality.
Analysis (2)
Boyle the poseur or Paycock struts throughout the play on a false and imaginary sense of his own self-importance.
the conventional naturalist family drama of drunkenness and defeat.
Analysis (3)
Many of the characters represented in the play are tragic victims of war and poverty.
The overall general vision seems to highlight the heroic quality of the women and their enormous capacity to suffer.
Theme
the cruel irony in the play: while many people were fighting for ideals and principles there were others who were suffering from the debilitating effects of the poverty.
Works Cited
Irish Civil War. 28 Dec. 2005 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Civil_War>. Irish Civil War, 1922-1923. 28 Dec. 2005 <http://libraryautomation.com/ nymas/irishcivilwar.html>. OCasey, Sean. Juno and The Paycock: A Tragedy in Three Acts. Masters of Modern Drama. Ed. Haskell M. Block and Robert G. Shedd. New York: Random House, 1960. 435-57. Sean OCasey. 28 Dec. 2005 <http://www.irishsociety.org/Hedgemaster%20Archives/sean_o'casey.h tm>.