Three Dublin Plays: The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, & The Plough and the Stars

Three early plays by Sean O'Casey—arguably his three greatest—demonstrate vividly O'Casey's ability to convey the reality of life and the depth of human emotion, specifically in Dublin before and during the Irish civil war of 1922-23, but, truly, throughout the known universe. In mirroring the lives of the Dublin poor, from the tenement dwellers in The Shadow of a Gunman and Juno and the Paycock to the bricklayer, street vendor, and c...