Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Editions Used; Chapter 1 Introduction: Shakespeare, Ireland and the Contemporary; Chapter 2 'Memory Like Mitigation': Heaney, Shakespeare and Ireland; Chapter 3 'An Inconstant Stay': Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney and the Ends of Shakespeare's Sonnets; I; II; III; IV; Chapter 4 Moving the Statue: Myths of Motherhood in Eavan Boland, Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture; Mothers; Daughters; Moving Statues; Chapter 5 'This Rough Magic': Late Derek Mahon and Late Shakespeare; Introduction: Lateness Itself; Mahon and Shakespeare

I Have Drunk, and Seen the SpiderThis Rough Magic; Chapter 6 The Politics of Translation in Brian Friel's Translations and Shakespeare's Henry Plays; Chapter 7 Conjuring Ghosts: Shakespeare, Dramaturgy and the Plays of Frank McGuinness; Chapter 8 'Filial Ingratitude': Marina Carr's Bond with Shakespeare; Chapter 9 McGahern's Lear, or: Tragedy in the Barracks; Acting and Suffering in the Early Fiction; Living and Dying in Amongst Women; Chapter 10 Performing Prospero: Intertextual Strategies in John Banville's Ghosts; Bibliography; Index