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| Juno and the Paycock | |
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| Written by | Seán O'Casey |
| Characters | Juno Boyle Captain Jack Boyle "Joxer" Daly Mary Boyle Johnny Boyle Maisie Madigan Charles Bentham Jerry Devine Mrs Tancred "Needle" Nugent Irregulars Furniture Removers Sewing-Machine Man Neighbours |
| Date premiered | 3 March 1924 |
| Place premiered | Abbey Theatre |
| Original language | English |
| Series | Dublin Trilogy |
| Setting | Tenement room, Dublin, 1922 |
Juno and the Paycock is a play by Seán O'Casey. Highly regarded and often performed in Ireland, it was first staged at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1924. It is set in the working-class tenements of Dublin in the early 1920s, during the Irish Civil War period. The word "paycock" is the Irish pronunciation of "peacock", which is what Juno accuses her husband of being.
It is the second of his "Dublin Trilogy" – the other two being The Shadow of a Gunman (1923) and The Plough and the Stars (1926).