Sean O'Casey and the Popular Dramatic Tradition
FAIN: FT-11462-73
Robert P. Murphy
University of Idaho (Moscow, ID 83844-9803)
To conduct a comprehensive inquiry into Sean O'Casey's reliance on other than melodramatic modes of theatrical empression to show to what degree O'Casey's dramaturgy is indebted to the dramaturgy of the popular theatre of the second half of the 19th century.