Shakespeare and Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Conceptualizing Identity and Staging Boundaries

ISBN-13: 9781138620537 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 130 str.

Rebecca Steinberger

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; 'What ish my nation?': the blurring of national identity in Shakespeare's Henry V, Richard II, and Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland; 'Past and to come seems best: things present worse': appropriations of Shakespeare's Henriad in modern Irish drama; 'Something is being eroded': peripheral visions in contemporary Irish drama; Conclusion; Further reading; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Rebecca Steinberger is Professor of English at Misericordia University.