Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature

By Nicholas Taylor-Collins

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030071162
• ISBN13: 9783030071165
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"