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The Glamour of Grammar: Orality and Politics and the Emergence of Sean O'Casey (Contributions in Drama & Theatre Studies) Book
Levels of education and, consequently, of literacy were low in the Dublin tenements at the beginning of the 20th century, and this facilitated the persistence of an oral tradition which stretched back for thousands of years. This book is an analysis of O'Casey's Abbey plays in the context of the oral culture in which they were set. Because they were powerless in a culture dominated by those who had reaped the advantages of education, the tenement dwellers were dazzled by the apparent magic of literacy and in awe of those who wielded its power. O'Casey uses this to dramatize the ease with which the poor were seduced into what he saw as a bourgeois revolution which brought them nothing but suffering and death.Read More
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- 0313313032
- 9780313313035
- Colbert Kearney
- 30 September 2000
- Greenwood Press
- Hardcover (Book)
- 160
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