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Shakespeare and Twentieth-Century Irish Drama - Conceptualizing Identity and Staging Boundaries (Paperback)
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Shakespeare and Twentieth-Century Irish Drama - Conceptualizing Identity and Staging Boundaries (Paperback)
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Exploring the influence of Shakespeare on drama in Ireland, the
author examines works by two representative playwrights: Sean
O'Casey (1880-1964) and Brian Friel (1929-). Shakespeare's plays,
grounded in history, nationalism, and imperialism, are resurrected,
rewritten, and reinscribed in twentieth-century Irish drama, while
Irish plays, in turn, historicize the Subject/Object relationship
of England and Ireland. In particular, the author argues, Irish
dramatists' appropriations of Shakespeare were both a reaction to
the language of domination and a means to support their revision of
the Irish as Subject. This study reveals that Shakespeare's plays
embody an empathy for the Irish Other. As she investigates
Shakespeare's commiseration with marginalized peoples and the
anticolonial underpinnings in his texts, the author situates
Shakespeare between the English discourse that claims him and the
Irish discourse that assimilates him.
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