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Shakespeare and the Irish Writer
Stephen O'neill (Editors) Janet Clare
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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 moreas well as Irish language writers. It surveys Shakespeare's reception in Ireland and suggests new ways of interpreting his work and his cultural associations in and from Ireland. Indeed, the collection reveals how the category 'Shakespeare and the Irish Writer' discloses a level of cultural continuity across the contours of the history of Ireland and Britain. What emerges is an interaction with Shakespeare's plays that, whether emulative or parodic, iconoclastic or subtly allusive, or a combination of these, is complex and creative.These essays provide new insight into Shakespeare's reception in Ireland, illustrating how his plays have initiated a dialogue in Irish writing, and continue to do so. They show how Irish responses to his work constitute a legitimate form of criticism, enlarging understanding of Shakespeare in a broader than national context. "Shakespeare and the Irish Writer" will appeal to scholars of modern Irish writing and to Shakespeare scholars, particularly those interested in the appropriation of the many plays and their cultural afterlife. Show Less
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University College Dublin Press Dublin
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Dublin, Ireland
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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 morebut new respondents including Elizabeth Bowen and Frank McGuinness are also brought into the frame. Homage and parody are handled in equal measure and the complexities of colonial and post-colonial attitudes to the English bard are explored.' Shakespeare Survey Online, 2015 'As in other English-speaking countries, Shakespeare is a major influence on Irish writers and literature - However, there is a different attitude to Shakespeare and a different way of interpreting him in Ireland which takes into account our indigenous literary tradition, the colonial experience and relations with England. Here scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore the influence of Shakespeare on Irish writers from W. B. Yeats to Frank McGuinness. They look at the performing of Shakespeare and the translation of his plays into Irish, taking on wider issues like Irish attitudes to bardolatry. The limited focus enables the contributors to concentrate on the most important Irish writers of the last century, who are shown in a new light by considering how Shakespeare influenced them. The papers also show how Irish writers have seen elements in his plays that the British have missed.' Books Ireland May 2010 Irish Theatre Magazine Link: http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/Reviews/Books/Shakespeare-and-the-Irish-Writer Patrick Lonergan NUI Galway Irish Theatre Magazine 12 May 2010 'Shakespeare can of course be a problem as well as an enablement for all writers, but, given his appropriation over the years in the service of English national and imperial ideas and ideals, he has been a particular problem for writers from colonial and , now, post-colonial countries. Exactly how far the colonial and post-colonial models fit Ireland has been extensively debated in recent times - This collection of essays therefore joins what is already a vigorous and quite extensive debate, and the editors' introduction encourages us to regard it as explicitly building on work already done - [This] new collection focuses exclusively on modern and contemporary writers, and is highly selective - Edward Dowden, Yeats, Douglas Hyde, Joyce, Shaw, Wilde, Elizabeth Bowen, Beckett and Frank McGuinness. In addition, there are essays on Shakespeare in Irish translations and on early 20th-century Irish parodies of Shakespeare. - Such relatively unexplored but potentially profitable forms of critical and creative dialogue are among the most useful attributes of this stimulating collection of essays.' Review of English Studies August 2010 'The book, edited by Janet Clare and Stephen O'Neill, comprises twelve essays with contributions from Declan Kiberd, Heather Ingman and Richard Meek among others, covering the responses of various Irish writers to Shakespeare and how his influence affected and sometimes shaped their works. ... builds on an earlier work devoted to the question of Shakespeare and Ireland, concerned with the Irish subtexts and contexts of Shakespeare's plays; this new book focuses on the relationship between Shakespeare and various Irish writers over the last hundred years or so including Shaw, Wilde, Joyce and Beckett. - Covering ground from Wilde through Shaw to Elizabeth Bowen and even Shakespeare as Gaeilge this is a comprehensive collection covering all aspects of Shakespearean study as it relates to the Bard's reception in Ireland.' Books Ireland December 2010 'Clare and O'Neill have put together an unusually informative and insightful collection. It will be of value to a broad audience, including scholars and ordinary readers interested in Shakespeare. - In sum, Clare and O'Neill have gathered together an excellent set of essays. They illuminate and challenge our understanding of Shakespeare, Irish writing and postcolonial literary creation. They also provide a good foundation for further theoretical and critical developments on these topics.' James Joyce Literary Supplement, Spring 2012 Show Less
