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Nov 23, 2024
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Workforce Development & Community Education - Fall 2024 - Summer 2025 - NON-CREDIT CATALOG
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CE-COLGM 2066 - Three Plays by Sean O’Casey
Leader: Elizabeth Gaffney, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at Westchester Community College This course will focus on three plays by Sean O’Casey that depict the effects of nationalism and war on ordinary people in Ireland during the early decades of the twentieth century. O’Casey wrote the plays during the years leading up to the 1917 Easter Rising. They portray the threat of conscription into the British Army during World War I, the rhetoric of nationalism, the destruction of the Irish war for independence in the early 1920’s, and the Irish Civil War. We will explore the playwright’s appealing combination of comedy mixed with tragedy. As one reader comments, “O’Casey doesn’t try to glorify the Irish struggle. Portrayed here are the lives of ‘common’ people…O’Casey’s language has salt.” Participants should obtain a copy of O’Casey, Sean. Three Dublin Plays: The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, & The Plough and the Stars. Introduction by Christopher Murray. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
Location Valhalla
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