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Celtic Shakespeare

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Celtic Shakespeare book

The Bard and the Borderers

Celtic Shakespeare

DOI link for Celtic Shakespeare

Celtic Shakespeare book

The Bard and the Borderers
ByRory Loughnane
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2013
eBook Published 8 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315571096
Pages 368 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315571096
SubjectsArea Studies, Humanities
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Loughnane, R., Maley, W. (Ed.). (2013). Celtic Shakespeare. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315571096

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |22 pages

Introduction: Celtic Connections and Archipelagic Angles

ByWilly Maley, Rory Loughnane

part |2 pages

Part 1 Tudor Reflections

chapter 1|10 pages

A Scum of Britons?: Richard III and the Celtic Reconquest

ByPhilip Schwyzer

chapter 2|26 pages

The Quality of Mercenaries: Contextualizing Shakespeare’s Scots in 1 Henry IV and Henry V

ByVimala C. Pasupathi

chapter 3|28 pages

War, the Boar and Spenserian Politics in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis

ByVenus and Adonis Thomas Herron

chapter 4|14 pages

‘The howling of Irish wolves’: As You Like It and the Celtic Essex Circle

ByChris Butler

chapter 5|16 pages

Shakespeare’s Elizabethan England/Jacobean Britain

ByChristopher Ivic

part |2 pages

Part 2 Stuart Revisions

chapter 6|18 pages

Othello and the Irish Question

ByWilly Maley

chapter 7|18 pages

‘Why should I play the Roman fool, and die / On mine own sword?’: The Senecan Tradition in Macbeth

ByAndrew J. Power

chapter 8|12 pages

‘To th’ Crack of Doom’: Sovereign Imagination as Anamorphosis in Shakespeare’s ‘show of kings’

ByMargaret Downs-Gamble

chapter 9|16 pages

Warriors and Ruins: Cymbeline, Heroism and the Union of Crowns

ByStewart Mottram

chapter 10|18 pages

‘I myself would for Caernarfonshire’: The Old Lady in King Henry VIII

ByRory Loughnane

part |2 pages

Part 3 Celtic Afterlives

chapter 11|12 pages

The Nation’s Poet? Milton’s Shakespeare and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

ByNicholas McDowell

chapter 12|14 pages

Shakespeare and Transnational Heritage in Dowden and Yeats

ByRob Doggett

chapter 13|14 pages

Cymbeline and Cymbeline Refinished: G. B. Shaw and the Unresolved Empire

ByRobin E. Bates

chapter 14|14 pages

Beyond MacMorris: Shakespeare, Ireland and Critical Contexts

ByStephen O’Neill
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