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janet clare and stephen o'neill (eds). Shakespeare and the Irish Writer.

janet clare and stephen o'neill (eds). Shakespeare and the Irish Writer. 816 REVIEWS JANET CLARE and STEPHEN O’NEILL (eds). Shakespeare and the Irish Writer. Pp. xii + 202. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2010. Paperback, £24. Shakespeare can of course be a problem as well as an enablement for all writers, but, given his appropriation over the years in the service of English national and imperial ideas and ideals, he has been a particular problem for writers from colonial and, now, post-colonial countries. Exactly how far the colonial and post-colonial models fit Ireland has been extensively debated in recent times; and, particularly since his work represents the Irish—Macmorris has sometimes been considered the first stage Irishman—the issue has impinged on the study and reception of Shakespeare. This collection of essays therefore joins what is already a vigorous and quite extensive debate, and the editors’ introduction encourages us to regard it as explicitly building on work already done in the essay collection Shakespeare and Ireland edited by Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray in 1997. The new collection focuses exclusively on modern and contemporary writers, and is highly selective. The authors considered are: Edward Dowden, Yeats, Douglas Hyde, Joyce, Shaw, Wilde, Elizabeth Bowen, Beckett and Frank McGuinness. In addition, there are http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Review of English Studies Oxford University Press

janet clare and stephen o'neill (eds). Shakespeare and the Irish Writer.

Corcoran, Neil
The Review of English Studies , Volume 61 (252) – Nov 12, 2010
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816 REVIEWS JANET CLARE and STEPHEN O’NEILL (eds). Shakespeare and the Irish Writer. Pp. xii + 202. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2010. Paperback, £24. Shakespeare can of course be a problem as well as an enablement for all writers, but, given his appropriation over the years in the service of English national and imperial ideas and ideals, he has been a particular problem for writers from colonial and, now, post-colonial countries. Exactly how far the colonial and post-colonial models fit Ireland has been extensively debated in recent times; and, particularly since his work represents the Irish—Macmorris has sometimes been considered the first stage Irishman—the issue has impinged on the study and reception of Shakespeare. This collection of essays therefore joins what is already a vigorous and quite extensive debate, and the editors’ introduction encourages us to regard it as explicitly building on work already done in the essay collection Shakespeare and Ireland edited by Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray in 1997. The new collection focuses exclusively on modern and contemporary writers, and is highly selective. The authors considered are: Edward Dowden, Yeats, Douglas Hyde, Joyce, Shaw, Wilde, Elizabeth Bowen, Beckett and Frank McGuinness. In addition, there are

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