books by Stanley van der Ziel
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
This book shows that Shakespeare continues to influence contemporary Irish literature, through po... more This book shows that Shakespeare continues to influence contemporary Irish literature, through postcolonial, dramaturgical, epistemological and narratological means. International critics examine a range of contemporary writers including Eavan Boland, Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, John McGahern, Frank McGuinness, Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon, and explore Shakespeare’s tragedies, histories and comedies, as well as his sonnets. Together, the chapters demonstrate that Shakespeare continues to exert a pressure on Irish writing into the twenty-first century, sometimes because of and sometimes in spite of the fact that his writing is inextricably tied to the Elizabethan and Jacobean colonization of Ireland. Contemporary Irish writers appropriate, adopt, adapt and strategize through their engagements with Shakespeare, and indeed through his own engagement with the world around him four hundred years ago.
Cork University Press, 2016
articles by Stanley van der Ziel
Journal of the Short Story in English (JSSE), 2018
James Joyce’s stories and novels are a constant presence in the fiction of John McGahern. This es... more James Joyce’s stories and novels are a constant presence in the fiction of John McGahern. This essay examines some of McGahern’s engagements with Joyce’s “The Dead”, a story to which McGahern returned on several occasions in his fiction, as well as at the end of his career in the essay “What Is My Language?”. The first half of the essay traces variations on that story’s trope of the “journey westward” in a number of McGahern’s works. The second half proposes that McGahern’s 1971 short story “Swallows” is a rewriting of Joyce’s “The Dead”. Both stories are concerned with literal and metaphorical journeys eastward and westward; but other elements of “Swallows” also recall aspects of “The Dead” and Ulysses, as McGahern’s story is both a work of fiction and a metafictional reflection on the nature of Irish writing (which both authors regard as part of an international, European tradition, rather than an insular affair) and on aspects of Joycean realism, a mode of writing to which he also returned in several essays and letters. The importance of music in the story – an unusual subject in McGahern’s fiction – is also linked with Joyce.
Irish Studies Review, 2019
While the connection between Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and King Lear has become somethin... more While the connection between Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and King Lear has become something of a critical commonplace, references to other Shakespeare plays can also be found throughout. This essay traces Godot’s debt to two plays in particular. First it argues how Godot not only draws on Hamlet’s graveyard scene for macabre imagery, but how it also construes an extended metatheatrical parody of Hamlet’s soliloquies about the contrast between acting and talking/thinking. The second half of the essay proposes a number of connections with The Tempest, and specifically with its “salvage and deformed slave” Caliban. It argues how the figure of Caliban not merely functions as a model for
a colonial power-dynamic that can be seen to operate here and elsewhere in Beckett, but how Caliban is equally significant as a lyrical figure whose great speech about sleeping, waking, and dreaming informs Beckett’s play in a number of ways.
New Hibernia Review, 2017
Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 2004
Irish University Review, 2005
Irish University Review, 2005
Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2005
Irish University Review, 2005
John McGahern Yearbook, 2011
Essays in Criticism, 2013
Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 2015
incollections by Stanley van der Ziel
Yeats Annual, no. 21: Yeats's Legacies, edited by Warwick Gould. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2018
This essay examines the echoes and allusions to Shakespeare's plays in W.B. Yeats's play Purgator... more This essay examines the echoes and allusions to Shakespeare's plays in W.B. Yeats's play Purgatory.
The whole issue can be accessed for free via the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0135
John McGahern: Authority and vision, eds Zeljka Doljanin and Máire Doyle. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017
A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story, eds. David Malcolm and Cheryl Alexander Malcolm. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
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books by Stanley van der Ziel
articles by Stanley van der Ziel
a colonial power-dynamic that can be seen to operate here and elsewhere in Beckett, but how Caliban is equally significant as a lyrical figure whose great speech about sleeping, waking, and dreaming informs Beckett’s play in a number of ways.
incollections by Stanley van der Ziel
The whole issue can be accessed for free via the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0135
Papers by Stanley van der Ziel
a colonial power-dynamic that can be seen to operate here and elsewhere in Beckett, but how Caliban is equally significant as a lyrical figure whose great speech about sleeping, waking, and dreaming informs Beckett’s play in a number of ways.
The whole issue can be accessed for free via the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0135