Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature
This book shows that Shakespeare continues to influence contemporary Irish literature, through postcolonial, dramaturgical, epistemological and narratological means. International critics examine a range of contemporary writers including Eavan Boland, Mar
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Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature
Nicholas Taylor-Collins · Stanley van der Ziel Editors
Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature
Editors Nicholas Taylor-Collins Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies Swansea University Swansea, UK
Stanley van der Ziel Department of English Maynooth University Maynooth, Ireland
ISBN 978-3-319-95923-8 ISBN 978-3-319-95924-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95924-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018949033 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: John Warburton-Lee Photography/Alamy Stock Photo This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Acknowledgements
This volume grew out of a conversation started at a conference at Queen’s University Belfast in March 2013. Independently of one another, we both presented papers on the intertextual relation between John McGahern’s novels and Shakespeare’s drama. A question raised during the Q&A session at one of these panels asked why McGahern— whose work had, after all, just inspired not one but two Shakespearean readings during the course of a single weekend—had not been included in any of the collections examining the connection between Shakespeare and Irish literature. The conversation started by this moved, ultimately, to the pub, where we began plotting how a collection that would take stock of the Shakespearean credentials of recent authors like this might take shape. For these reasons, we owe our first thanks to the conference organisers, Adam Bargroff and Raymond Mullen. A volume such as this exists in the mind well before it exists on paper. Our aspirations were high as we envisaged which c
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