{"product_id":"shakespeare-memory-and-modern-irish-literature-1","title":"Shakespeare, Memory, and Modern Irish Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis original and innovative book proposes ‘dismemory’ as a new form of intertextual engagement with Shakespeare by modern and contemporary Irish writers. Through reflection on these canonical writers and ranging across thirteen Shakespeare plays, Taylor-Collins demonstrates how Irish writers who helped to fashion and critique the Irish nation state carry an indelible, if often subdued, mark of Shakespeare’s early modern English influence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume overall renews and revitalises the Shakespeare–modern Ireland connection: Taylor-Collins reveals Hamlet’s hauntological legacy in \u003ci\u003ePlayboy of the Western World, Ulysses\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGhosts\u003c\/i\u003e; how the corporal economies that exert pressure from \u003ci\u003eCoriolanus \u003c\/i\u003eand Ben Jonson flicker through to the antiheroes in Beckett’s \u003ci\u003eThree Novels\u003c\/i\u003e; and how the landed legacies of territorial contests in Shakespeare are engaged with in Yeats’s poetry, and similarly how the diseased muddiness in \u003ci\u003eHamlet \u003c\/i\u003eis addressed by Heaney.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55374448263512,"sku":"9781526195784","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781526195784.jpg?v=1777979740","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/shakespeare-memory-and-modern-irish-literature-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}