Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland

Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland
ISBN-10
1135905118
ISBN-13
9781135905118
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
283
Language
English
Published
2008-01-11
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Robin Bates

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.

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