This thesis is a reappraisal of John Berryman’s achievement that stresses his poetry’s critical agency over and against the prevailing tendency to describe it in narrow confessional terms. Questioning the received view of ...

This study provides an extensive examination of the work of Thomas Kinsella by addressing the fundamental question of form which his poetry presents. There are two phases in Kinsella’s writing: one contains poems written ...

The thesis investigates the relationship between modern theatre and everyday space, taking contemporary Irish playwright Tom Murphy (1935-2018) as a case study. Dramatising everyday life has been the focus of many playwrights, ...

This thesis contextualises the work of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu in nineteenth-century debates on insanity. Le Fanu lived at a time when psychiatry was establishing itself as a new branch of medicine, and its advances, ...

This article traces the performance history of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus in Iran, focusing on the most recent production of the play directed by Mostafa Koushki (b. 1984), performed between 2019 and 2020 in Tehran, Iran, ...

The objective of this thesis is to demonstrate that Hardy’s role as a magistrate had a pervasive effect on his development of the tragic novel and to argue that legal issues are integral to the narrative pattern of his ...

This thesis examines the reception accorded to W. B. Yeats in Ireland during his lifetime. While the principal focus is on his literary work, due attention is also paid to the many political and cultural conflicts in which ...

This essay considers the relationships between Samuel Ferguson, Edward Dowden, and Aubrey de Vere in the late nineteenth century. In evaluating Ferguson’s career shortly after the poet’s death in 1886, W. B. Yeats considered ...