Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

by RobinBates (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $158.07

  Focusing on plays which appear prominently in the writing of Irish nationalist movement of early twentieth century, this book explores how Irish writers such as Sean O'Casey, Samuel Beckett, and Seamus Heaney, resisted English cultural colonization through a combination of reappropriation and critique of Shakespeare's work.