By Mark Thornton Burnett, Ramona Wray
Shakespeare and eire examines the advanced courting among the main celebrated icon of the British institution and Irish literary and cultural traditions. Addressing Shakespearean representations of eire in addition to Irish writers' responses to the dramatist, it levels commonly throughout theatrical performances, pedagogical practices, editorial undertakings and political advancements. The writings of Joyce, Heaney and Yeats are thought of, as well as fresh nationalist discourses. In so doing, the gathering establishes the a number of 'Shakespeares' and competing 'Irelands' that tell the Irish imagination.
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It is worth recalling that when the Irish officer Macmorris first appears he is in the company of the Scottish Captain [amy. The famous heated exchange between Macmorris and Fluellen broaches the question of national identity: Fluellen. Captain Macmorris, I think, look you, under your correction, there is not many of your nation Macmorris. Of my nation! What ish my nation? Ish a villain, and a bastard, and a knave, and a rascal- What ish my nation? 12 The quizzical stance of Macmorris seems a suitable springboard for the interrogation of Shakespeare and Ireland.
Macmorris' nation may be in doubt not because he is Irish, but precisely because he is English. The matter is otherwise. As an Old Englishman, a descendant of the twelfthcentury English settlement in Ireland, he could claim dual nationality. Shakespeare's 'stage Irishman' is quite probably a Palesman. Macmorris, or 'son of Morris', belongs to a clan which traces its ancestry back to the so-called'Anglo-Norman' conquest. The Macmorris episode in Henry V offers one example of the way in which the Irish section of Holinshed's Chronicles, a peculiar mixture of medieval and early modem 'Old English' myths and anecdotes, came to be a source for a text celebrating a new kind of Englishness from which that community were to be excluded.
7. ), AlternativeShakespeares (London; Methuen, 1985), p. 236, n. 7. I also have in mind Derrida's provocative reformulation of the notorious claim that there is nothing outside the text: 'An "internal" reading will always be insufficient. And moreover impossible. Question of context, as everyone knows, there is nothing but context, and therefore: there is no outside-the-text'. See Jacques Derrida , 'Biodegradables: Seven diary fragments', trans. Peggy Kamuf, Critical Inquiry, 15 (1989), p. 873.