Shakespeare in Ireland

Andrew Murphy MRIA FTCD is Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He has previously worked at the University of St Andrews, UK, and his major authored publications include Shakespeare in Print (2nd ed. 2021); Ireland, Reading and Cultural Nationalism (2018); Shakespeare for the People (2008); and Ireland, Colonialism and Renaissance Literature (1999). He has edited four volumes -- most recently The Nation in British Literature and Culture (2023) -- and served as UK Associate Editor for The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare (2 vols, 2016). He is currently editing Henry V with expected publication in 2027.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Shakespeare on Aran Andrew Murphy (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)1. Thomas Sheridan’s Coriolanus (1752) and the Making of Smock Alley David O'Shaughnessy (University of Galway, Ireland)2. Tralee, 1756: Shakespeare on the Atlantic Edge Marc Caball (University College Dublin, Ireland) and Jason McElligott (Marsh's Library, Dublin, Ireland)3. Gothic Protagonist, Romantic Icon, Irish Character? The Uses of Shakespeare in the Portrayal of Melmoth the Wanderer Raphaël Ingelbien and Benedicte Seynhaeve (KU Leuven, Belgium)4. From Stratford to Galway: W. B. Yeats on Shakespeare Neil Rhodes (University of St Andrews, UK)5. Unquiet Ancestors: Beckett Reading Shakespeare through Synge and Joyce Claudia Olk (LMU Munich, Germany)6. Shakespeare Iconography in Victorian Belfast: Materiality, Industrialisation, ImperialismMolly Quinn-Leitch(Queen’s University Belfast, UK)7. Séacspaoir sa Taibhdhearc: Irish TranslationsAndrew Murphy (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)8. Shakespeare’s Irish History Museum: Adapting Richard II Stephen O’Neill ( National University of Ireland Maynooth)9. Hamlet the Irishman: Irish Theatre Histories, Re-Invented and Re-Circulated Patrick Lonergan (University of Galway, Ireland)10. ‘Great Liberties are Taken with the Action’: Siobhán McKenna’s ‘Experimental Version’ of HamletEmer McHugh (Queen's University Belfast, UK)11. ‘Looks the Part’: Conceptual Casting as Incomplete Adaptation in Corcadorca’s Merchant of Venice (2005) and Terra Nova’s Belfast Tempest (2016)Justine Nakase (Independent scholar, USA)12. ‘To tell [Ireland’s Shakespeare] story’: Filmic Histories / Social JusticeMark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University Belfast, UK)Index

This is one of the most in-depth, comprehensive and expansive studies on Shakespeare in Ireland. Spanning centuries, it focuses on the various ways the playwright and his work have been reconfigured and recycled and it includes material that reflects radical recent changes to Irish culture.