Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland

Informationen zum Autor Robin Bates is Associate Professor of English at Lynchburg College, US. Klappentext Using a combined lens of cultural materialist and postcolonial studies to read the early modern inclusion of the Irish in the culture of the British empire, this study explores the cultural colonization or "impressment" as a way of understanding for Shakespeare's representations of the Irish. Zusammenfassung Using a combined lens of cultural materialist and postcolonial studies to read the early modern inclusion of the Irish in the culture of the British empire, this study explores the cultural colonization or "impressment" as a way of understanding for Shakespeare’s representations of the Irish. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Cultural Impressment Chapter Two: Macmorris and the Impressment of the Irish Servant Chapter Three: Richard II, Irish Exiles, and the Breath of Kings Chapter Four: Hamlet and Other Kinds of In-between-ness Chapter Five: Question and Answer Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Robin Bates, Robin E. Bates, BATES ROBIN
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.11.2007
• EAN: 9780415958165
• ISBN: 978-0-415-95816-5
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory; Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, Ireland, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean