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Yeats, Shakespeare, and Irish Cultural Nationalism

Buch | Hardcover
196 Seiten
2014
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61147-626-2 (ISBN)
107,95 inkl. MwSt
Yeats, Shakespeare, and Irish Cultural Nationalism examines Yeats’s writing on Shakespeare in the context of his work on behalf of the Irish Literary Revival. While Shakespeare’s verse drama provides a source of inspiration for Yeats’s poetry and plays, Yeats also writes about Shakespeare in essays and articles promoting the ideals of the Revival, and on behalf of Irish literary nationalism. 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.

This book identifies three stages of Yeats’s cultural nationalism, each of which appropriates England’s national poet in an idiosyncratic manner, while reflecting contemporary trends in Shakespeare reception. Thus Yeats’s fin-de-siécle Shakespeare is a symbolist poet and folk-artist whose pre-modern sensibility detaches him from contemporary English culture and aligns him with the inhabitants of Ireland’s rural margins. Next, in the opening decade of the twentieth century, following his visit to Stratford to see the Benson history cycle, Yeats’s work for the Irish National Theatre adopts an avant-garde, occultist stagecraft to develop an Irish dramatic repertoire capable of unifying its audience in a shared sense of nationhood. Yeats writes frequently about Shakespeare during this period, locating on the Elizabethan stage the kind of transformational emotional affect he sought to recover in the Abbey Theatre. Finally, as Ireland moves towards political independence, Yeats turns again to Shakespeare to register his disappointment with the social and cultural direction of the nascent Irish state.

In each case, Yeats’s thinking about Shakespeare responds to the remarkable conflation of aesthetic and religious philosophies constituting his cultural nationalism, thus making a unique case of Shakespearean reception. Taken together, Yeats’s writings deracinate Shakespeare, and so contribute significantly to the process by which Shakespeare has come to be seen as a global artist, rather than a specifically English possession.

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

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

Verlagsort Cranbury
Sprache englisch
Maße 161 x 234 mm
Gewicht 431 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-61147-626-7 / 1611476267
ISBN-13 978-1-61147-626-2 / 9781611476262
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