"Unquiet Ancestors: Beckett Reading Shakespeare through Synge and Joyce"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo656/
Author:
	Olk, Claudia.
Type:
	Book Chapter
Year:
	2025
Publication Information:
	Murphy, Shakespeare in Ireland: Adaptations and Appropriations, 93–109.
:
	Murphy, Shakespeare in Ireland: Adaptations and Appropriations
Annotation:
	"Explore[s] resonant correspondences between Shakespeare, Synge, Joyce, and Beckett." Shows how these Irish writers "inscribe their works into the very history of reception they create, in making and unmaking predecessors like Shakespeare in a stance that is both tragicomic and performative."
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Joyce, James; Synge, John Millington; Beckett, Samuel; Murphy, Andrew
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Shakespeare as Influence, Shakespeare in Literature
WSB Update:
	Fall 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo656