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Celtic Shakespeare The Bard and the Borderers
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
Celtic Connections and Archipelagic Angles; 1: Tudor Reflections; 1: A Scum of Britons?: Richard III and the Celtic Reconquest; 2: The Quality of Mercenaries: Contextualizing Shakespeare's Scots in 1 Henry IV and Henry V 1; 3: War, the Boar and Spenserian Politics in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis; 4: ‘The howling of Irish wolves': As You Like It and the Celtic Essex Circle; 5: Shakespeare's Elizabethan England/Jacobean Britain; 2: Stuart Revisions; 6: Othello and the Irish Question; 7: ‘Why should I play the Roman fool, and die / On mine own sword?': The Senecan Tradition in Macbeth; 8: ‘To th' Crack of Doom': Sovereign Imagination as Anamorphosis in Shakespeare’s ‘show of kings’; 9: Warriors and Ruins: Cymbeline, Heroism and the Union of Crowns; 10: ‘I myself would for Caernarfonshire': The Old Lady in King Henry VIII; 3: Celtic Afterlives; 11: The Nation's Poet? Milton's Shakespeare and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms; 12: Shakespeare and Transnational Heritage in Dowden and Yeats; 13: Cymbeline and Cymbeline Refinished: G. B. Shaw and the Unresolved Empire; 14: Beyond MacMorris: Shakespeare, Ireland and Critical Contexts; Epilogue Hwyl and Farewell
Biography
Willy Maley is Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Rory Loughnane is Associate Editor, New Oxford Shakespeare, IUPUI, USA.
'... a comprehensive, thought-provoking collection and a significant statement in the field of Shakespeare studies and archipelagic studies more widely.' Irish Studies Review 'It is a sign of how valuable and thought-provoking this collection is that many of the essay possess wider implications for early modern drama that should also be explored.' Scottish Literary Review
