1st Edition
Shakespeare and Twentieth-Century Irish Drama Conceptualizing Identity and Staging Boundaries
By Rebecca Steinberger
Copyright 2008
130 Pages
by
Routledge
130 Pages
by
Routledge
130 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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.
Biography
Rebecca Steinberger is Professor of English at Misericordia University.
