Sean O'Casey Studies Through 1964

SEAN O'CASEY STUDIES THROUGH 1964 A REASONABLY COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF BIOGRAPHICAL, critical, and other scholarly studies of Sean O'Casey has been' needed for a long time. Otto Brandstadter's (see below) is out of date and by no' means readily available for many scholars; besides, it neither covers the ground adequately nor distinguishes between the useful and the trivial, the "solid" and the ephemeral. It even refers to a few books which do not have O'Casey material at all. The following list is at once more exhaustive and more selective than Brandstadter's. I have omitted most reviews and all apparent trivia, and have checked as many bibliographical references as possible against the books and articles themselves. (Items not examined, and thus not verified, are marked "nv.") For practical reasons, I have not listed material published after the year ofO'Casey's death.' Abirached, Robert, "Deux Pieces de Sean O'Casey," Etudes, CCCIX (1961), 382387 . Adamov, Arthur, .. 'La Femme Avenir de l'Homme' dans l'Oeuvre de Sean O'Casey," Lettres Francaises, No. 1028 (1964). nv Armstrong, William A., "History, Autobiography, and The Shadow of a Gunman," Modern Drama, II (1960), 417-424. - - , "The Irish Point of View: The Plays of Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, and Thomas Murphy," in Experimental Drama, by Armstrong et al. (Lon~ don, 1963), pp. 79-93~ - - , "The Sources and Themes of The Plough and the Stars," Modern Drama, IV (1961), 234-242. Ayling, Ronald, "Feathers Finely Aflutther," Modern Drama, VII (1964), 135-147. - - , "Feathers Flying: Politics in the Early Life and Thought of Sean O'Casey," Dubliner, III (Spring 1964), 54-67. --., "'Nannie's Night Out,' to Modern Drama, V (1962), 154-163. - - , "The Poetic Drama of T. S. Eliot," English Studies in Africa, II (1959). 247-250. (O'Casey's possible influence on Eliot's technique) - - , "Sean o'Casey: The Writer Behind His Critics," Kilkenny Magazine, No. 11 (Spring/Summer 1964), 69-82. Bachmann, C. H., "Das Spiel als Zuflucht: Notizen zu Stiicken von Schehade, Jeffers , O'Casey und Barrie," Anregung (Koln), XII (1960), 246-247. nv Baggett, Patricia, "Sean O'Casey's Development of a Basic Theme," Dublin Magazine , XXXI (October-December 1956), 25-34. Barzun, Jacques, "O'Casey at Your Bedside," Tulane Drama Review, II (February 1958), 57-61. (First published in Griffin) BeUak, George,' "Tea with Sean," Theatre Arts Monthly, XXXVII (September 1953), 70 -71, 91-92. Benstock, Bernard, "A Covey of Clerics in Joyce and O'Casey," James Joyce Quarterly , II (1964), 18-32. nv Bentley. Eric, The Playwright as Thinker (New York, 1946), passim. Bergholz, Harry, Die Neugestaltung des Modernen Englischen Theaters I870 bis I930 (Berlin, 1933). nv - - , "Sean O'Casey," Englische Studien, LXV (1930 ), 49-67. 17 18 MODERN DRAMA May Blocker, Gunter, "O'Casey oder das Heilsame Chaos," Tagesspiegel, XXIX (September 1950), 3. nv Blyth, Ernest, Trasna na Boinne (Dublin, 1957). nv Boas, Guy, "The Drama of Sean O'Casey," College English, X (1948), 80-86. Boyd, Alice K., The Interchange of Plays Between London and New York, I9IOI9J9 : A Study in Relative Audience Response (New York, 1948), passim. Brandstadter, Otto, "Eine O'Casey-Bibliographie," Zeitschritt fur Anglistik una Amerikanistik, II (1954), 240-254. Brandt, G. W., "Realism and Parables (from Brecht to Arden)," in Contemporary Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Studies, IV (New York, 1962), pp. 36-4°. Bromage, Mary C., "The Yeats-O'Casey Quarrel," Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review, LXIV (1958), 135-144. Brugere, Raymond, "Sean O'Casey et Ie Theatre Irlandais," Revue Anglo-Americaine , III (1926), 206-221. Brule, A., "Sean O'Casey et Ie Theatre Moderne," Revue Anglo-Americaine, VI (1928), 53-57· Burton, Philip, "Something to Crow About: An Approach to 'Cock-a-Doodle Dandy,'" Theatre Arts, XLII (November 1958), 22-24. Byrne, Dawson, The Story ot Ireland's National Theatre: The Abbey Theatre, Dublin (Dublin, 1929), pp. 125-133. C., W. M., "'The Plough and the Stars: By Sean O'Casey," Queens Quarterly, XXXIV (1927), 420-429. Caswell, R. W., "Sean O'Casey as a Poetic Dramatist," unpubl. diss. (Trinity College , 1959 or 1960). nv Colum, Padraic, "The Narrative Writings of Sean o'Casey," Irish Writing, No. 6 (1948), 60-69. See also O'Casey's reply, a...