Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature

Nicholas Taylor-Collins is Lecturer in English Literature at Swansea University, UK, where he teaches on early modern, twentieth- and twenty-first literature. He received his PhD from the University of Warwick, having also studied at The University of Manchester. His research focuses widely both on early modern English literature, and modern and contemporary Irish literature, with publications on Shakespeare, James Joyce and John McGahern. Stanley van der Ziel is Lecturer in English at Maynooth University, Ireland, where he teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century British and Irish literature. His publications include numerous articles on Irish authors, from Yeats to Joseph O'Neill. He is the author of John McGahern and the Imagination of Tradition (2016), and the editor of two editions of McGahern's works: Love of the World: Essays (2009) and The Rockingham Shoot and Other Dramatic Writings (2018).

1. Introduction: Shakespeare, Ireland and the Contemporary; Nicholas Taylor-Collins and Stanley van der Ziel.- 2. 'memory like mitigation': Heaney, Shakespeare and Ireland; Rui Carvalho Homem.- 3. 'an inconstant stay': Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney and the Ends of Shakespeare's Sonnets; Tom Walker.- 4. Moving the Statue: Myths of Motherhood in Eavan Boland, Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture; Nicholas Taylor-Collins.- 5. 'This rough magic': Late Derek Mahon and Late Shakespeare; Sarah Bennett.- 6. What Ish My language? The Politics of Translation in Brian Friel's Translations and Shakespeare's Henry Plays; Anthony Roche.- 7. Conjuring Ghosts: Shakespeare, Dramaturgy and the Plays of Frank McGuinness; Anne Fogarty.- 8. 'Filial ingratitude': Marina Carr's Bond with Shakespeare; Willy Maley and Stanley van der Ziel.- 9. McGahern's Lear, or: Tragedy in the Barracks; Stanley van derZiel.- 10. Performing Prospero: Intertextual Strategies in John Banville's Ghosts; Elke D'hoker.