Shakespeare and twentieth-century Irish drama
Subtitle: conceptualizing identity and staging boundaries
By: Rebecca Steinberger.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754637806
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Influence; O'Casey, Sean, -- 1880-1964 -- Criticism and interpretation; Friel, Brian -- Criticism and interpretation; English drama -- Irish authors -- History and criticism; Nationalism and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century; Imperialism in literature; Colonies in literature; Nationalism in literature; National characteristics, Irish, in literature; Ireland -- In literature
Other titles: Shakespeare and 20th-century Irish drama
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "What ish my nation": the blurring of national identity in Shakespeare's Henry V, Richard II, and Spenser's A view of the present state of Ireland; title: "Past and to come seems best; things present worse" : appropriations of Shakespeare's Henriad in modern Irish drama; title: "Something is being eroded" : peripheral visions in contemporary Irish drama.