{"product_id":"9781526195784","title":"Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature","description":"Author: Nicholas Taylor-Collins\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526195784\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 29 Apr 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 328 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis original and innovative book proposes 'dismemory' as a new form of intertextual engagement with Shakespeare by modern and contemporary Irish writers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume overall renews and revitalises the Shakespearemodern Ireland connection: Taylor-Collins reveals Hamlet's hauntological legacy in Playboy of the Western World, Ulysses, and Ghosts; how the corporal economies that exert pressure from Coriolanus and Ben Jonson flicker through to the antiheroes in Beckett's Three Novels; and how the landed legacies of territorial contests in Shakespeare are engaged with in Yeats's poetry, and similarly how the diseased muddiness in Hamlet is addressed by Heaney.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920572367006,"sku":"ING-9781526195784","price":56.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526195784.jpg?v=1782824389","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526195784","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}