Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Stage interpreters -- The Shaughraun -- John Bull's Other Island -- Translations -- The politics of staging Ireland -- 2 Strangers in the house -- The Land of Heart's Desire -- The Travelling Man -- Kathleen ni Houlihan -- The Shadow of the Glen -- 3 Shifts in perspective -- Shifts -- Crimes -- Setting -- Carnival and the sacred -- 4 Class and space in O'Casey -- Class constructions -- A room of one's own: The Shadow of a Gunman -- Women and family values: Juno and the Paycock -- City and nation -- 5 Reactions to revolution -- Politics: The Plough and the Stars -- Style: The Old Lady Says 'No!' -- Audience: The Hostage -- Unfinished business -- 6 Living on -- Purgatory: the tragedy of survival -- All that Fall: a lingering dissolution -- Affinities -- 7 Versions of pastoral -- Staying or going: A Crucial Week -- Philadelphia -- A summer birdcage: On the Outside/On the Inside, Lovers -- Pastoral and anti-pastoral -- 8 Murphy's Ireland -- Retelling the story -- Returning to the cottage kitchen -- Refashioning the past -- 9 Imagining the other -- Observe the Sons of Ulster -- The Steward of Christendom -- The politics of the other -- Conclusion: a world elsewhere -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 STAGE INTERPRETERS -- 2 STRANGERS IN THE HOUSE -- 3 SHIFTS IN PERSPECTIVE -- 4 CLASS AND SPACE IN O'CASEY -- 5 REACTIONS TO REVOLUTION -- 6 LIVING ON -- 7 VERSIONS OF PASTORAL -- 8 MURPHY'S IRELAND -- 9 IMAGINING THE OTHER -- CONCLUSION: A WORLD ELSEWHERE -- Bibliography -- Index.