Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland
By Robin Bates
Published October 21st 2009 by Routledge – 170 pages
Description
Focusing on plays (Richard II, Henry V, and Hamlet) which appear prominently in the writing of the Irish nationalist movement of the early twentieth century, this study explores how Irish writers such as Sean O’Casey, Samuel Beckett, W. B. Yeats, G. B. Shaw, James Joyce, and Seamus Heaney resisted English cultural colonization through a combination of reappropriation and critique of Shakespeare's work.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Cultural Impressment
Chapter Two: Macmorris and the Impressment of the Irish Servant
Chapter Three: Richard II, Irish Exiles, and the Breath of Kings
Chapter Four: Hamlet and Other Kinds of In-between-ness
Chapter Five: Question and Answer
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Name: Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland (Paperback) – Routledge
Description: By Robin Bates. Focusing on plays (Richard II, Henry V, and Hamlet) which appear prominently in the writing of the Irish nationalist movement of the early twentieth century, this study explores how Irish writers such as Sean O’Casey, Samuel Beckett, W. B...
Categories: Post-Colonial Studies, Shakespeare, Literature & Culture, Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, 20th Century Literature