Staging Ireland: Representations in Shakespeare And Renaissance Drama - Couverture rigide

O'Neill, Stephen

 
9781851829897: Staging Ireland: Representations in Shakespeare And Renaissance Drama
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 185182989X ISBN 13 : 9781851829897
Editeur : Four Courts Press Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

This book is a comprehensive study of the representation of Ireland in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Through a detailed analysis of a range of canonical and less familiar plays, such as The Misfortunes of Arthur, Captain Thomas Stukeley, Sir John Oldcastle and Dekker's The Honest Whore, this book reveals fascinating interconnections between Ireland as it was figured in Elizabethan and early Jacobean drama, and contemporaneous political and cultural anxieties about Ireland and Irish alterity. Exploring how the stage provided a fluid, though licensed, space where such anxieties were negotiated and confronted, this study questions views of the stage Irishman as a static colonialist stereotype. Instead, it demonstrates that dramatic representations of Ireland were dynamic, heterogeneous, and ideologically unstable. Opening up Renaissance drama to its multivalent Irish contexts, Staging Ireland will appeal to scholars and students of Shakespeare and early modern literature; drama and theatre as well as Irish studies.

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Éditeur
Four Courts Press Ltd
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
185182989X
ISBN 13 
9781851829897
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
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Personne responsable
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