2025/06/23 by Lloyd Meadhbh Houston · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Irish and British Studies #Theatre and Performance Studies #Samuel Beckett and Modernism
paper · doi:10.1017/9781009304191.004
Sean O’Casey based himself in London between 1926 and 1938, and this chapter examines the cultural life of interwar London during O’Casey’s time there. London’s theatre world had long been an important destination for Irish playwrights, and this section of the book establishes the kind of expectations and tastes that O’Casey encountered when he arrived here from Dublin. The chapter explores O’Casey’s interaction with the English capital’s culture and society, and shows how the move to the English capital shaped O’Casey’s social views as well as the subject and form of his writing.