Da (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Keyes Byrne
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Comedy
- Time of Work: May, 1968
- Genres: Drama, Farce, Comedy, Mystery and detective drama, Memory play, Autobiographical drama
- Subjects: Values, 1960’s, Memory, Parents and children, Fathers, Imagination, Drama or dramatists, Ireland or Irish people, Old age or elderly people
- Locales: Dublin, Ireland
Characters Discussed
Charlie Tynan, a London playwright. Charlie is Da’s foster child. At the age of forty-two, he has returned to Ireland to bury his deceased father. He is a troubled man who is unable to exorcise Da’s presence from his memory. Charlie’s earlier abjuration of Da’s rustic sensibility is a source of shame for him, as is his perception of his father as boorish and obstinate. His father’s posthumous visitations to Charlie’s mind are reflections of Charlie’s fixation on Da and the remarkable impressions he left on Charlie throughout their embattled...
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