Shakespeare and the Irish Writer

In the wake of his Staging Ireland : Representations in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama (2007), Stephen O’Neill, assisted by Janet Clare, tackles the vast topic of the ambivalent reception of Shakespeare in Ireland in a collection of twelve homogeneous and interrelated essays which focus on the unexpected links between the Elizabethan playwright and Ireland. Here, the spotlight falls on a cast of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish writers characterized by their engagement with Sha..