Celtic Shakespeare

Celtic Shakespeare
Title Celtic Shakespeare PDF eBook
Author Rory Loughnane
Publisher Routledge
Pages 367
Release 2016-04-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317169069

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Drawing together some of the leading academics in the field of Shakespeare studies, this volume examines the commonalities and differences in addressing a notionally 'Celtic' Shakespeare. Celtic contexts have been established for many of Shakespeare's plays, and there has been interest too in the ways in which Irish, Scottish and Welsh critics, editors and translators have reimagined Shakespeare, claiming, connecting with and correcting him. This collection fills a major gap in literary criticism by bringing together the best scholarship on the individual nations of Ireland, Scotland and Wales in a way that emphasizes cultural crossovers and crucibles of conflict. The volume is divided into three chronologically ordered sections: Tudor Reflections, Stuart Revisions and Celtic Afterlives. This division of essays directs attention to Shakespeare's transformed treatment of national identity in plays written respectively in the reigns of Elizabeth and James, but also takes account of later regional receptions and the cultural impact of the playwright's dramatic works. The first two sections contain fresh readings of a number of the individual plays, and pay particular attention to the ways in which Shakespeare attends to contemporary understandings of national identity in the light of recent history. Juxtaposing this material with subsequent critical receptions of Shakespeare's works, from Milton to Shaw, this volume addresses a significant critical lacuna in Shakespearean criticism. Rather than reading these plays from a solitary national perspective, the essays in this volume cohere in a wide-ranging treatment of Shakespeare's direct and oblique references to the archipelago, and the problematic issue of national identity.

The Celtic Revival in Shakespeare's Wake

The Celtic Revival in Shakespeare's Wake
Title The Celtic Revival in Shakespeare's Wake PDF eBook
Author A. Putz
Publisher Springer
Pages 250
Release 2013-05-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1137027665

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This book reconsiders the Celtic Revival by examining appropriations of Shakespeare, using close readings of works by Arnold, Dowden, Yeats and Joyce to reveal the pernicious manner in which the discourse of Anglo-Irish cultural politics informed the critical paradigms that mediated the reading of Shakespeare in Ireland for a generation.

Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature

Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature
Title Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature PDF eBook
Author Nicholas Taylor-Collins
Publisher Springer
Pages 264
Release 2018-09-18
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 3319959247

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This book shows that Shakespeare continues to influence contemporary Irish literature, through postcolonial, dramaturgical, epistemological and narratological means. International critics examine a range of contemporary writers including Eavan Boland, Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, John McGahern, Frank McGuinness, Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon, and explore Shakespeare’s tragedies, histories and comedies, as well as his sonnets. Together, the chapters demonstrate that Shakespeare continues to exert a pressure on Irish writing into the twenty-first century, sometimes because of and sometimes in spite of the fact that his writing is inextricably tied to the Elizabethan and Jacobean colonization of Ireland. Contemporary Irish writers appropriate, adopt, adapt and strategize through their engagements with Shakespeare, and indeed through his own engagement with the world around him four hundred years ago.

Shakespeare and Ireland

Shakespeare and Ireland
Title Shakespeare and Ireland PDF eBook
Author Mark Thornton Burnett
Publisher Springer
Pages 271
Release 1997-12-13
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1349259241

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Shakespeare and Ireland examines the complex relationship between the most celebrated icon of the British establishment and Irish literary and cultural traditions. Addressing Shakespearean representations of Ireland as well as Irish writers' responses to the dramatist, it ranges widely across theatrical performances, pedagogical practices, editorial undertakings and political developments. The writings of Joyce, Heaney and Yeats are considered, in addition to recent nationalist discourses. In so doing, the collection establishes the multiple 'Shakespeares' and competing 'Irelands' that inform the Irish imagination.

Irish Illustrations to Shakespeare

Irish Illustrations to Shakespeare
Title Irish Illustrations to Shakespeare PDF eBook
Author David Comyn
Publisher
Pages 48
Release 1894
Genre
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Shakespeare and European Politics

Shakespeare and European Politics
Title Shakespeare and European Politics PDF eBook
Author Dirk Delabastita
Publisher Associated University Presse
Pages 398
Release 2008
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780874130041

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"This volume's main focus is on the ways in which, over the past 400 years, Shakespeare has played a role of significance within a European framework, particularly where a series of political events and ideologically based developments were concerned, such as the early modern wars of religion, the emergence of "the nation" during the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the First and Second World Wars, the process of European unification during the 1990s, the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, and Britain's participation in the war in Iraq." "The whole of the collection and particularly the opening section clearly invites a European and even a global perspective." "This book convincingly demonstrates that Shakespeare, both at the level of his meaning in his own time and at that of his reception in later ages, should no longer be studied only in relation to particular nations, but as Dirk Delabastita argues, also at various supranational levels." --Book Jacket.

Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare
Title Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare PDF eBook
Author Shaul Bassi
Publisher Springer
Pages 234
Release 2016-05-04
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1137491701

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Shaul Bassi is Associate Professor of English and Postcolonial Literature at Ca'Foscari University of Venice, Italy. His publications include Visions of Venice in Shakespeare, with Laura Tosi, and Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures, with Annalisa Oboe.