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1966 O'CASEy'S DUBLIN TRILOGY 425 purposeful art. In his commingling of forms and moods O'Casey joins the laughter and ridicule of comedy with the pity and fear of tragedy, with the comic serving to mitigate the tragic sting and the tragic acting to reinforce with serious overtones the moments of hilarity. The result is hybrid drama of sardonic comedy and ironic tragedy. In his extended pageant of bitter revolution set against the filth-stained tenements of the Dublin slums, O'Casey achieves, therefore , the near perfect marriage of form and content, skill£ulIy manipuhlting his flexible, many-toned dramas so that they correlate nicely with the complexities of character and situation. RONALD G. ROLLINS NOTE The Midwest Modern Language Association will have its annual meeting April 29, 30, 1966, at the University of Iowa. Chairman for the Modern Drama Conference of MMLA is Professor C. J. Gianakaris of Illinois State University. ...

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