2 Biography
3 Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
4 The Cry of the Children
5 Sonnets from the Portuguese
6 Biography
8 Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
13 Crossing the Bar
15 from In Memoriam A. H. H.
17 Break, Break, Break
20 The Lady of Shalott
21 Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
22 Biography
24 A Christmas Carol: Stave 4
29 Biography
30 Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
45 Biography
60 The Importance of Being Earnest: Act I
61 Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
63 The Importance of Being Earnest: Act II
65 The White Man’s Burden
66 Recessional
67 Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
68 Fuzzy-Wuzzy
70 The Ruined Maid
73 The Impercipient
76 Let Me Enjoy
77 Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?
82 The Going
83 Hap
85 Major Barbara: Act III
90 Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
92 Heart of Darkness: Chapter 2
93 Heart of Darkness: Chapter 1
94 Biography
96 Sailing to Byzantium
98 Byzantium
99 Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
100 The Circus Animals’ Desertion
104 The Wild Swans at Coole
105 The Second Coming
107 Study Questions and Activities
110 [Additional Poems]
112 Loveliest of Trees
114 To an Athlete Dying Young
116 Biography
118 The Schartz-Metterklume Method
119 Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
120 Introduction
121 Biography
123 Smile, Smile, Smile
126 Dulce et Decorum Est
127 Disabled
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132 Biography
137 Biography
139 Dead Man’s Dump
140 Returning, We Hear the Larks
141 Study Questions and Activities
144 Biography
146 Juno and the Paycock: ACT III
147 Juno and the Paycock: ACT II
149 Juno and the Paycock
150 Biography
151 Explanatory Notes to Juno and the Paycock
152 To the Lighthouse: Introduction
154 To the Lighthouse
156 Professions for Women
166 Biography
167 Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
168 The Journey of the Magi
169 The Hollow Men
170 The Waste Land
171 Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
172 Biography
174 The Daughters of the Late Colonel: X
177 The Daughters of the Late Colonel: VII
180 The Daughters of the Late Colonel: IV
186 Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
187 The Daughters of the Late Colonel: I
192 Brave New World: Chapter 17
193 Brave New World: Chapter 16
195 Brave New World: Chapter 1
196 Brave New World: Chapter 2
197 Brave New World: Chapter 3
199 Brave New World: Chapter 5
200 Brave New World: Chapter 6
201 Brave New World: Chapter 7
203 Brave New World: Chapter 9
208 Brave New World: Chapter 14
211 Can Socialists be Happy?
212 Pleasure Spots
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149 Juno and the Paycock
149 Juno and the Paycock
Sean O'Casey
Characters in the Play
Capt. Jack Boyle
Juno Boyle, his wife
Johnny Boyle
Mary Boyle
“Joxer” Daly
Mrs. Maisie Madigan
“Needle” Nugent, a tailor
Mrs. Tancred
Jerry Devine
Charles Bentham, a school teacher
An Irregular Mobilizer
Two Irregulars
A coal-block vendor
A sewing machine man
Two furniture removal men
Two Neighbors
Scene
Act I. — The living apartment of a two-roomed tenancy of the Boyle family, in a tenement house in Dublin.
Act II.—The same.
Act III.—The same.
A few days elapse between Acts I and II, and two months between Acts II and III.
During Act III the curtain is lowered for a few minutes to denote the lapse of one hour.
Period of the play, 1922.