DRAM 115 Study Guide - Final Guide: Moscow Art Theatre, Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen
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Believed that ireland would need to be a nation apart from england for justice to be done. Title of the play comes from a popular old rebel song that pointed to the rising of the moon as the signal for the rising of peoples against oppression. Main characters of the play represent the two opposing forces in ireland: freedom and independence (represented by the singer of a ragged man ) and law and order (represented by the sergeant) Gregory and yeats were sympathetic to irish revolutionary causes. One of 3 plays that treat the fate of oedipus and his children. Oedipus sets out to discover whether he is actually the son of polybos and merope, the people who raised him. Learns from oracle of apollo at delphi that he will kill his father and marry his mother. Leaves his homeland to avoid killing polybos and marrying merope. Irony disjunction between what seems to be true and what is true.
