Includes index.

The endless fantasy of Irish talk / Raymond Williams -- From ritual to romance in Within the gates and Cock-a-doodle Dandy / Ronald G. Rollins -- Master of knockabout / David Krause -- Early dramatic experiments / Ronald Ayling -- Music and dance and the shaping of O'Casey's later plays / Katharine Worth -- "You needn't say more" / Bernice Schrank -- Sean O'Casey and socialist realism / Robert G. Lowery -- On the fabrications and epiphanies in O'Casey's autobiography / David Krause -- The silver tassle / Carol Kleiman -- Juno and the paycock / Heinz Kosok.