from Part VI - Critical Understandings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2025
There is a strong case to be made for defining the early plays of the Dublin Trilogy as a series. A series is a sequence of related texts, and these texts occupy two states simultaneously: independence and interaction. The associated term ‘seriality’ describes the state of interaction between serial texts, and reflections on the operations of ‘seriality’ have emerged from a range of academic disciplines. This chapter examines O’Casey’s most famous writings in the context of serial narrative, serial publication, and serial consumption.
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