Shakespeare and Twentieth-Century Irish Drama Conceptualizing Identity and Staging Boundaries
Auteur : Steinberger Rebecca
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.
Rebecca Steinberger is Professor of English at Misericordia University.
Date de parution : 11-2020
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Abbey Theatre; Field Day Theatre Company; Act III; Shakespeare’s Henriad; IRA Activity; Saint Crispin’s Day; Tragic Flaw; England’s Imperial Enterprise; friels; Friel’s Play; play; Emergent National Identity; Friel’s Translations; Seminal Work Orientalism; Dublin Trilogy; Spenser’s View; Irish Citizen Army; Field Day; Heinz Kosok; Contemporary Irish Drama; Henry IV; Collective Irish Identity; Dublin Tenements; Richard II; Field Day Anthology; Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia; Irish Literati