Table of Contents:
  • 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.