Overview

Through a selection of essays from a variety of scholarly voices, this volume maps the various ways in which Shakespeare has been adapted, adopted and appropriated in Ireland from the late 17th century through to the present day. Shakespeare's plays have been performed in Ireland since the 1660s, when Smock Alley theatre was established in Dublin, with Shakespeare serving as its essential stock-in-trade. Since then the playwright's work has played a central role in the formation of Irish culture. His works helped to fashion colonial identity in Ireland in the 18th century and beyond, but, from the 1800s onwards, Shakespeare also became an important figure for Irish nationalists. In the modern period, Shakespeare’s influence can also be discerned in the work of a broad range of Irish writers, and this volume considers the impact of his plays on such authors as Synge, Joyce, Beckett and others. The volume also explores the place of Shakespeare in the Irish theatrical tradition. Shakespeare in Ireland explores the history of Irish Shakespeare through the numerous ways in which the playwright and his work were reconfigured and recycled in various Irish contexts. The volume demonstrates how Shakespeare has been rendered Irish in a variety of complex ways, and it aims to track, over time, the story of how Shakespeare became a fully hibernicised figure.

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Author:   Andrew Murphy ,  Professor Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   The Arden Shakespeare
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.80cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781350458383

ISBN 10:   1350458384
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 May 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"List of Contributors Introduction, Andrew Murphy (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) 1. Shakespeare and Irish Patriotism: Thomas Sheridan's Coriolanus', David O'Shaugnessy (University of Galway, Ireland) 2. Tralee, 1756: Shakespeare on the Atlantic Edge, Marc Caball (University College Dublin, Ireland) and Jason McElligott (Marsh's Library, Ireland) 3. Gothic Protagonist, Romantic Icon, Irish Character: The Uses of Shakespeare in the Portrayal of Melmoth the Wanderer, Raphaël Ingelbien and Benedicte Seynhaeve (KU Leuven, Belgium) 4. Shakespeare Iconography in Victorian Belfast: Identity, Industrialisation, Imperialsm, Molly Quinn-Leitch (Queen's University Belfast, UK) 5. From Stratford to Galway: W. B. Yeats on Shakespeare, Neil Rhodes (University of St Andrews) 6. Shakespeare and Beckett, Claudia Olk (LMU Munich, Germany) 7. Irishing Shakespeare: The Case of Liam O'Briain, Andrew Murphy (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) 8. Siobhán McKenna's ""Experimental Version"" of Hamlet, Emer McHugh (Queen's University Belfast, UK) 9. Shakespeare's Irish History Museum: Adapting Richard II, Stephen O'Neill (National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland) 10. Race, Diversity and Irish Shakespeares, Justine Nakase (Portland State University, USA) 11. Hamlet the Irishman, Patrick Lonergan (University of Galway, Ireland) 12. Ireland's Shakespeare: Filmic Histories/Social Justice, Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Notes Index Bibliography"

Reviews

This is one of the most in-depth, comprehensive and expansive studies on Shakespeare in Ireland. Spanning centuries, it focuses on the various ways the playwright and his work have been reconfigured and recycled and it includes material that reflects radical recent changes to Irish culture. * Adele Lee, Emerson College, USA *

Author Information

Andrew Murphy MRIA FTCD is Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He has previously worked at the University of St Andrews, UK, and his major authored publications include Shakespeare in Print (2nd ed. 2021); Ireland, Reading and Cultural Nationalism (2018); Shakespeare for the People (2008); and Ireland, Colonialism and Renaissance Literature (1999). He has edited four volumes -- most recently The Nation in British Literature and Culture (2023) -- and served as UK Associate Editor for The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare (2 vols, 2016). He is currently editing Henry V with expected publication in 2027.

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