Irish Shakespeares

Gender, Sexuality, and Performance in the Twenty-First Century

AvEmer McHugh

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

Irish Shakespeares explores performances, adaptations, and appropriations of Shakespeare in Irish theatrical contexts, and how they articulate concerns and conversations about gender and sexual politics.This book is the first full-length study to investigate Irish uses and appropriations in Shakespeare performance history and practice. In doing so the book demonstrates the distinctive nature of writing about Irish Shakespeare performance, in that it sits within and across multiple theoretical frameworks and paradigms. It primarily focuses on theatrical work in the Republic of Ireland, as well as performances of Shakespeare by Irish practitioners in English theatres, during a time of legislative, biopolitical, and social change and upheaval on the island of Ireland (2014-2022). Irish Shakespeares illustrates Irish Shakespeare performance as a valuable site for exploring and embodying notions, performances, and ideas of gender, sexuality, and national identity. It does not claim to be the last word on Irish Shakespeare performance either, proposing generative strategies for future work.This book is suitable for scholars and students specialising in Shakespeare and early modern performance studies, global Shakespeares, and Shakespeare and Ireland studies, as well as Irish theatre and performance, Irish cultural history, gender and sexuality studies, and performance and politics

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-10-30
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367536510

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Mer om författaren

Emer McHugh is an Irish writer and academic based in Belfast. She is a visiting scholar at Queen’s University Belfast, where she held a Marie Skłowdowska-Curie Fellowship for the project ‘Shakespeare and the Irish Actor’. She has published widely on Irish Shakespeare performance; theatre and celebrity; and the histories of actors, acting, and acting practices. Her writing for public audiences can be found in The Guardian, Rupture, HowlRound Theatre Commons, and RTÉ Brainstorm.

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'Emer McHugh's Irish Shakespeares demonstrates, with brilliant clarity, the ways in which performances of Shakespeare in Irish contexts are not merely neutral engagements with a cultural artefact. Rather, they are tied up with both Irish and Shakespearean conceptions of family, faith, and nationhood; 'charged', as she puts it, with complex histories of 'imperialism, cultural hegemony, and colonial violence' (2-3). This is an urgent and timely work, situated in both place and time but nonetheless speaking to the ways in which the long histories of Ireland, the Irish diaspora, and Shakespeare inflect and influence issues of performance and identity today. This is an essential book for anyone interested in contemporary Shakespearean performance, adaptation and appropriation, and gender and sexuality in performance — and one that I will be returning to and thinking with for a long time to come.'Nora J. Williams (BIMM University)

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsIllustrationsA note on the textChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Unmanly GriefChapter 3. Embodied HistoriesChapter 4. Numbered in the SongChapter 5. The Aesthetics of Queer Irish ShakespearesChapter 6. EpilogueIndex