Celtic Shakespeare

The Bard and the Borderers

Rory Loughnane (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-24678-2 (ISBN)

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Drawing together some of the leading academics in the field of Shakespeare studies, this volume examines the commonalities and differences in addressing a notionally 'Celtic' Shakespeare. Celtic contexts have been established for many of Shakespeare's plays, and there has been interest too in the ways in which Irish, Scottish and Welsh critics, editors and translators have reimagined Shakespeare, claiming, connecting with and correcting him. This collection fills a major gap in literary criticism by bringing together the best scholarship on the individual nations of Ireland, Scotland and Wales in a way that emphasizes cultural crossovers and crucibles of conflict. The volume is divided into three chronologically ordered sections: Tudor Reflections, Stuart Revisions and Celtic Afterlives. This division of essays directs attention to Shakespeare's transformed treatment of national identity in plays written respectively in the reigns of Elizabeth and James, but also takes account of later regional receptions and the cultural impact of the playwright's dramatic works. The first two sections contain fresh readings of a number of the individual plays, and pay particular attention to the ways in which Shakespeare attends to contemporary understandings of national identity in the light of recent history. Juxtaposing this material with subsequent critical receptions of Shakespeare's works, from Milton to Shaw, this volume addresses a significant critical lacuna in Shakespearean criticism. Rather than reading these plays from a solitary national perspective, the essays in this volume cohere in a wide-ranging treatment of Shakespeare's direct and oblique references to the archipelago, and the problematic issue of national identity.

Willy Maley is Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Rory Loughnane is Associate Editor, New Oxford Shakespeare, IUPUI, USA.

Celtic Connections and Archipelagic Angles; 1: Tudor Reflections; 1: A Scum of Britons?: Richard III and the Celtic Reconquest; 2: The Quality of Mercenaries: Contextualizing Shakespeare's Scots in 1 Henry IV and Henry V 1; 3: War, the Boar and Spenserian Politics in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis; 4: ‘The howling of Irish wolves': As You Like It and the Celtic Essex Circle; 5: Shakespeare's Elizabethan England/Jacobean Britain; 2: Stuart Revisions; 6: Othello and the Irish Question; 7: ‘Why should I play the Roman fool, and die / On mine own sword?': The Senecan Tradition in Macbeth; 8: ‘To th' Crack of Doom': Sovereign Imagination as Anamorphosis in Shakespeare’s ‘show of kings’; 9: Warriors and Ruins: Cymbeline, Heroism and the Union of Crowns; 10: ‘I myself would for Caernarfonshire': The Old Lady in King Henry VIII; 3: Celtic Afterlives; 11: The Nation's Poet? Milton's Shakespeare and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms; 12: Shakespeare and Transnational Heritage in Dowden and Yeats; 13: Cymbeline and Cymbeline Refinished: G. B. Shaw and the Unresolved Empire; 14: Beyond MacMorris: Shakespeare, Ireland and Critical Contexts; Epilogue Hwyl and Farewell

Erscheinungsdatum	07.09.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-138-24678-6 / 1138246786
ISBN-13	978-1-138-24678-2 / 9781138246782
Zustand	Neuware