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TY  - CHAP
T2  - Murphy, Shakespeare in Ireland: Adaptations and Appropriations
SP  - 39-56
ID  - bbbo653
T1  - "Tralee, 1756: Shakespeare on the Atlantic Edge"
AU  - Caball, Marc
AU  - McElligott, Jason
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025
KW  - County Kerry, Ireland, playbill, advertisement
LA  - English
AB  - Using extant playbills as evidence, describes the 1756 theatrical season in Tralee, Ireland, emphasizing the importance of Shakespeare adaptations (including Thomas Betterton's 1 Henry IV) and conjecturing that the theatre attracted both Protestant and Catholic audience members. Argues that "these playbills suggest that knowledge of Shakespeare in the farthest corners of mid-eighteenth-century Ireland may have been considerably more expansive than might be assumed."
ER  -