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SEAN O’CASEY

SEAN O’CASEY. “ The world is a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”. born in 1880 to a Protestant family in the slums of Dublin was an idealist whose views were centered on socialist ideals. The Dublin Trilogy. Three Plays: The Shadow of a Gunman

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SEAN O’CASEY

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  1. SEAN O’CASEY “ The world is a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.” born in 1880 to a Protestant family in the slums of Dublin was an idealist whose views were centered on socialist ideals

  2. The Dublin Trilogy Three Plays: The Shadow of a Gunman Juno and the Paycock The Plough and the Stars

  3. The Shadow of a Gunman Displayed the terrors of the Black and Tans in Dublin.

  4. Juno and the Paycock A family is to receive a large inheritance, starts spending frivolously, and loses sight of their values.

  5. The Plough and the Stars Focused on the Irish Citizen Army and the Easter Rising.

  6. “Any man who is honest and gives all he can to the community is a Communist,” O’Casey said. O’ Casey was an alleged communist who saw Keats, Dickens, Whitman, and even Jesus Christ as Communists.

  7. “I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometimes terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.” O’Casey died in 1964 of a heart attack in his home in England.

  8. WORKS CITED http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/sean_ocasey.html http://www.irish-society.org/Hedgemaster%20Archives/sean_o'casey.htm http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc100.html

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