Oliver Hennessey

Yeats, Shakespeare, and Irish Cultural Nationalism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines Yeats’s writing about Shakespeare in the contexts of his work on behalf of the Irish Literary Revival and contemporary trends in Shakespeare reception. These prose pieces reveal Yeats thinking about Shakespeare’s art and times throughout his career, and taken together they offer a new perspective on the contours of Yeats’s cultural politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781611477412
• ISBN-10: 1611477417
• Artikelnr.: 44842512

Autorenporträt

Oliver Hennessey teaches courses in Shakespeare and early modern literature at Xavier University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: William Shakespeare in Yeats's Irish Revival
Chapter 1: De-Anglicization: Yeats, Victorian Shakespeare, and Cultural
Authority
Chapter 2: The Birth of a Nation: Shakespeare in the Irish Dramatic
Movement
Chapter 3: Disappointment, Degeneration, and Despair: Yeats's Late
Shakespeare
Chapter 4: Yeats's Modern(ish) Shakespeare: Irish Revivalism and Literary
Modernism
Bibliography
Index
About the Author