Shakespeare and Twentieth-Century Irish Drama

Exploring the influence of Shakespeare on drama in Ireland, the author examines works by two representative playwrights: Sean O''Casey (1880-1964) and Brian Friel (1929-). Shakespeare''s plays, grounded in history, nationalism, and imperialism, are resurrected, rewritten, and reinscribed in twentieth-century Irish drama, while Irish plays, in turn, historicize the Subject/Object relationship of En...