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Bernard Shaw´s Irish Outlook
David Clare
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Description for Bernard Shaw´s Irish Outlook
Hardback. Using close readings of Shaw's plays and letters, as well as archival research, David Clare illustrates that Shaw regularly placed Irish, Irish Diasporic, and surrogate Irish characters into his plays in order to comment on Anglo-Irish relations and to explore the nature of Irishness. Series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 404.
Using close readings of Shaw's plays and letters, as well as archival research, David Clare illustrates that Shaw regularly placed Irish, Irish Diasporic, and surrogate Irish characters into his plays in order to comment on Anglo-Irish relations and to explore the nature of Irishness.
Using close readings of Shaw's plays and letters, as well as archival research, David Clare illustrates that Shaw regularly placed Irish, Irish Diasporic, and surrogate Irish characters into his plays in order to comment on Anglo-Irish relations and to explore the nature of Irishness.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
Condition
New
Weight
401g
Number of Pages
207
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137543554
SKU
V9781137543554
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About David Clare
David Clare is an Irish Research Council-funded postdoctoral research fellow at the Moore Institute at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His work has been published in the Irish Studies Review, the New Hibernia Review, the Irish University Review, Studies: An Irish Quarterly, and Emerging Perspectives. He holds an MA and a PhD in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama from University ... Read more
Reviews for Bernard Shaw´s Irish Outlook
A concluding section on the long tail of Shaw's evolved Stage Englishman on Irish authors from Joyce to Brendan Behan is splendid proof of Shaw's artistry and Clare's erudition. Although Bernard Shaw's Irish Outlook is addressed primarily to Irish studies, Clare accomplishes the daunting task of making the intricacies of Irish history, politics, and aesthetics compelling to all literature and ... Read more