Week no 6

Juno and the Paycock by Sean O' Casey

Sean O' Casey was an Irish playwright renowned for realistic dramas of the Dublin slums in war and revolution.O’Casey’s three indisputably great plays are The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, and The Plough and the Stars. All are tragicomedies set in the slums of Dublin during times of war and revolution. Violent death and the everyday realities of tenement life throw into relief the  patriotic swagger of men caught up in the struggle for Irish independence.

Introduction of the writer and his major works.