Shakespeare and Ireland

Shakespeare and Ireland examines the complex relationship between the most celebrated icon of the British establishment and Irish literary and cultural traditions. Addressing Shakespearean representations of Ireland as well as Irish writers' responses to the dramatist, it ranges widely across theatrical performances, pedagogical practices, editorial undertakings and political developments. The writings of Joyce, Heaney and Yeats are considered, in addition to recent nationalist discourses. In so doing, the collection establishes the multiple 'Shakespeares' and competing 'Irelands' that inform the Irish imagination.

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Kenneth G. Henshall is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and has taught at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Notes on Contributors - Foreword; F.McGuinness - Introduction; M.Thornton Burnett - SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY MODERN IRELAND - Neighbourhood in Henry V; Lisa Hopkins - Shakespeare, Holinshed and Ireland: Resources and Con-texts; Willy Maley - 'Hitherto she ne're could fancy him': Shakespeare's 'British' Plays and the Exclusion of Ireland; A.Hadfield - Where is Ireland in The Tempest?; D.J.Baker - NATIONAL SHAKESPEARES, POSTCOLONIAL CULTURES - 'Shakespeare Explained': James Joyce's Shakespeare from Victorian Burlesque to Postmodern Bard; R.Brown - W.B. Yeats and Shakespearean Character; J.Allison - Shakespeare and the Definition of the Irish Nation; R.English - Bridegrooms to the Goddess: Hughes, Heaney and the Elizabethans; N.Rhodes - PERFORMANCE, PEDAGOGY, LANGUAGE - No 'Brave Irishman' Need Apply: Thomas Sheridan, Shakespeare and the Smock-Alley Theatre; B.E.Schneller - Rug-headed Kerns Speaking Tongues: Shakespeare, Translation and the Irish Language; M.Cronin - 'Tish Ill Done': Henry the Fifth and the Politics of Editing; Andrew Murphy - Shakespeare and the Sectarian Divide: Politics and Pedagogy in (post) Post-Ceasefire Belfast; R.Wray