{"product_id":"9780571195527","title":"Three Dublin Plays by Sean O'Casey","description":"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 charwoman in The Plough and the Stars,  Sean O'Casey conveys with urgency and eloquence the tiny details that  create a total character as well as the terrors, large and small, that  the constant threat of political violence inevitably brings.  As Seamus  Heaney has written, \"O'Casey's characters are both down to earth and  larger than life . . . His democratic genius was at one with his tragic  understanding, and his recoil from tyranny and his compassion for the  oppressed were an essential - as opposed to a moral and thematic - part of  his art.\"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43399141884082,"sku":"9780571195527","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/products\/9780571195527.jpg?v=1698855132","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780571195527","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}