Shakespeare, Memory, and Modern Irish Literature

Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English and modern Irish literature. Characterising the relationship as 'dismemorial', the book explores how ghosts, bodies, and the land are sites of literary connection through which contemporary Ireland draws on Shakespeare's England.

About the author

Nicholas Taylor-Collins is Senior Lecturer of English at Cardiff Metropolitan University

Summary

Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English and modern Irish literature. Characterising the relationship as ‘dismemorial’, the book explores how ghosts, bodies, and the land are sites of literary connection through which contemporary Ireland draws on Shakespeare’s England. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Taylor-Collins
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781526149619
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4961-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, Ireland, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean