Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Apparitions; Appropriations; 1 Matthew Arnold; Celtic literature; Irish politics; 2 Edward Dowden; Mind and art; Spiritual brogue; Imperial impresario; 3 W.B. Yeats; Victorian ideals; 'At Stratford-on-Avon'; At Swim-Two-Swans; 'Irving and his plume of pride'; 4 James Joyce; Shakespeare explained; Stephen heroic; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This book reconsiders the Celtic Revival by examiningappropriations of Shakespeare, using close readings of works by Arnold, Dowden, Yeats and Joyce to reveal the pernicious manner in which the discourse ofAnglo-Irish cultural politics informed the critical paradigms that mediated thereading of Shakespeare in Ireland for a generation