Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	September 2018
First published:	2018
Editors:	Nicholas Taylor-Collins • Stanley van der Ziel
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	258
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-95923-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism
LSN:	3-319-95923-9
Barcode:	9783319959238

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