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16%OFFStephen O'Neill (Editors) Janet Clare - Shakespeare and the Irish Writer - 9781906359393 - V9781906359393
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Shakespeare and the Irish Writer

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Description for Shakespeare and the Irish Writer Paperback. This new collection of essays explores the synamic responses to Shakespeare by Irish writers, in both English and Irish, since the early twentieth century.
There is a long history in Ireland of performing, studying and responding to Shakespeare's plays. Transposed to an Irish context, Shakespeare has continued to be a source of creative engagement and discussion for Irish writers. This new collection of essays explores the dynamic responses to Shakespeare by Irish writers, in both English and in Irish, since the early twentieth century. Written by leading Irish and international scholars in the fields of Shakespeare and Irish studies "Shakespeare and the Irish Writer" addresses the engagement with Shakespeare and his plays in the works of Yeats, Wilde, Joyce, Bowen, Shaw, Beckett and McGuinness ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University College Dublin Press Dublin
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781906359393
SKU
V9781906359393
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-16

About Stephen O'Neill (Editors) Janet Clare
Janet Clare is Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of Hull; Stephen O'Neill is a Lecturer in English at NUI Maynooth.

Reviews for Shakespeare and the Irish Writer
'Shakespeare and the Irish Writer ... is [a] rich collection of essays looking at the particularities of Irish responses to Shakespeare across time. As the essays demonstrate, Ireland has made major contributions to the Shakespeare industry from the seventeenth century onwards ... Key figures like W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce and Oscar Wilde are discussed at length ... Read more

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