O’Brien’s theatricality constitutes the central area of inquiry of this volume of essays
Fagan commandingly argues that seeing O’Brien in terms of the stage involves reflection not only on his dramatic aesthetic but on his interest in mimicry, falsity and the meta-theatrical. Moreover, to consider Flann O’Brien in terms of his dramatic output involves radically reframing him.
O’Brien’s parochialism is belied by the numerous essays here that draw out the intertextual dimensions of his work. Dieter Fuchs shows how The Third Policeman expands on the Oedipal plots of Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World and Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar to capture the inveterate rivalries that pattern Irish politics.
Tobias Harris in a densely realised exploration considers The Fausticity of Kelly in the light of Goethe’s two plays about Faust; Jack Fennell explores Myles na gCopaleen’s An Sgian and The Handsome Carvers against the backdrop of grand guignol conventions; and Eglantina Remport cross-compares O’Nolan and Lady Gregory and their use of the visual and of dramatic tableaus.
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