Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature, 1st ed. 2018
Langue : Anglais
Coordonnateurs : Taylor-Collins Nicholas, van der Ziel Stanley
This book shows that Shakespeare continues to influence contemporary Irish literature, through postcolonial, dramaturgical, epistemological and narratological means. International critics examine a range of contemporary writers including Eavan Boland, Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, John McGahern, Frank McGuinness, Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon, and explore Shakespeare?s tragedies, histories and comedies, as well as his sonnets. Together, the chapters demonstrate that Shakespeare continues to exert a pressure on Irish writing into the twenty-first century, sometimes because of and sometimes in spite of the fact that his writing is inextricably tied to the Elizabethan and Jacobean colonization of Ireland. Contemporary Irish writers appropriate, adopt, adapt and strategize through their engagements with Shakespeare, and indeed through his own engagement with the world around him four hundred years ago.
1. Introduction: Shakespeare, Ireland and the Contemporary; Nicholas Taylor-Collins and Stanley van der Ziel.- 2. ‘memory like mitigation’: Heaney, Shakespeare and Ireland; Rui Carvalho Homem.- 3. ‘an inconstant stay’: Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney and the Ends of Shakespeare’s Sonnets; Tom Walker.- 4. Moving the Statue: Myths of Motherhood in Eavan Boland, Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture; Nicholas Taylor-Collins.- 5. ‘This rough magic’: Late Derek Mahon and Late Shakespeare; Sarah Bennett.- 6. What Ish My language? The Politics of Translation in Brian Friel’s Translations and Shakespeare’s Henry Plays; Anthony Roche.- 7. Conjuring Ghosts: Shakespeare, Dramaturgy and the Plays of Frank McGuinness; Anne Fogarty.- 8. ‘Filial ingratitude’: Marina Carr’s Bond with Shakespeare; Willy Maley and Stanley van der Ziel.- 9. McGahern’s Lear, or: Tragedy in the Barracks; Stanley van der Ziel.- 10. Performing Prospero: Intertextual Strategies in John Banville’s Ghosts; Elke D’hoker.
Nicholas Taylor-Collins is Lecturer in English Literature at Swansea University, UK, where he teaches on early modern, twentieth- and twenty-first literature. He received his PhD from the University of Warwick, having also studied at The University of Manchester. His research focuses widely both on early modern English literature, and modern and contemporary Irish literature, with publications on Shakespeare, James Joyce and John McGahern.
Stanley van der Ziel is Lecturer in English at Maynooth University, Ireland, where he teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century British and Irish literature. His publications include numerous articles on Irish authors, from Yeats to Joseph O’Neill. He is the author of John McGahern and the Imagination of Tradition (2016), and the editor of two editions of McGahern’s works: Love of the World: Essays (2009) and The Rockingham Shoot and Other Dramatic Writings (2018).
Deals with authors whose Shakespearean connections have thus far been overlooked in scholarship
Addresses Irish writing since the 1960s
Focuses on the presence of Shakespeare in recent Irish poetry, drama and prose fiction (rather than drama only)
Date de parution : 12-2018
Ouvrage de 258 p.
14.8x21 cm
Date de parution : 09-2018
Ouvrage de 258 p.
14.8x21 cm
Thème de Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature :
Mots-clés :
Easter Rising; Poetry; Drama; Fiction; Influence; British and Irish Literature
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