Examining the commonalities and differences in addressing a notionally 'Celtic' Shakespeare, this collection brings together the best scholarship on the individual nations of Ireland, Scotland and Wales in a way that emphasizes cultural crossovers and crucibles of conflict. The essays in this volume cohere in a wide-ranging treatment of Shakespeare's direct and oblique references to the archipelago, and the problematic issue of national identity.

Willy Maley is Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Rory Loughnane is Associate Editor, New Oxford Shakespeare, IUPUI, USA.

Celtic Connections and Archipelagic Angles; 1: Tudor Reflections; 1: A Scum of Britons?: Richard III and the Celtic Reconquest; 2: The Quality of Mercenaries: Contextualizing Shakespeare's Scots in 1 Henry IV and Henry V 1; 3: War, the Boar and Spenserian Politics in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis; 4: 'The howling of Irish wolves': As You Like It and the Celtic Essex Circle; 5: Shakespeare's Elizabethan England/Jacobean Britain; 2: Stuart Revisions; 6: Othello and the Irish Question; 7: 'Why should I play the Roman fool, and die / On mine own sword?': The Senecan Tradition in Macbeth; 8: 'To th' Crack of Doom': Sovereign Imagination as Anamorphosis in Shakespeare's 'show of kings'; 9: Warriors and Ruins: Cymbeline, Heroism and the Union of Crowns; 10: 'I myself would for Caernarfonshire': The Old Lady in King Henry VIII; 3: Celtic Afterlives; 11: The Nation's Poet? Milton's Shakespeare and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms; 12: Shakespeare and Transnational Heritage in Dowden and Yeats; 13: Cymbeline and Cymbeline Refinished: G. B. Shaw and the Unresolved Empire; 14: Beyond MacMorris: Shakespeare, Ireland and Critical Contexts; Epilogue Hwyl and Farewell