Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland

Description

Focusing on plays (Richard II, Henry V, and Hamlet) which appear prominently in the writing of the Irish nationalist movement of the early twentieth century, this study explores how Irish writers such as Sean O’Casey, Samuel Beckett, W. B. Yeats, G. B. Shaw, James Joyce, and Seamus Heaney resisted English cultural colonization through a combination of reappropriation and critique of Shakespeare's work.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: Cultural Impressment

Chapter Two: Macmorris and the Impressment of the Irish Servant

Chapter Three: Richard II, Irish Exiles, and the Breath of Kings

Chapter Four: Hamlet and Other Kinds of In-between-ness

Chapter Five: Question and Answer

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

1. Shakespeare
2. Post-Colonial Studies
3. Literature & Culture
4. Irish Literature
5. 20th Century Literature
6. Early Modern/Renaissance Literature