Shakespeare memory and modern Irish literature

<p>This 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.<br><br>The volume overall renews and revitalises the Shakespeare-modern Ireland connection: Taylor-Collins reveals Hamlet's hauntological legacy in <i>Playboy of the Western World Ulysses</i> and <i>Ghosts</i>; how the corporal economies that exert pressure from <i>Coriolanus </i>and Ben Jonson flicker through to the antiheroes in Beckett's <i>Three Novels</i>; and how the landed legacies of territorial contests in Shakespeare are engaged with in Yeats's poetry and similarly how the diseased muddiness in <i>Hamlet </i>is addressed by Heaney.</p>