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This dissertation explores the resurgence of motifs related to Celtic cultures in Shakespeare’s plays, that is to say the way the pre-Christian and pre-Roman cultures of the British Isles permeate the dramatic works of William Shakespeare. Such motifs do not always evidently app…

While Scotland was politically unified before the First Scottish War of Independence (1296-1328), it was only nominally so. Scotland shared a rich cultural unity amongst the clans, and it was only through the invasion from England, and the war that followed, that Scotland found …

Reading and viewing twentieth-century Irish drama means repeatedly encountering Irish songs and traditional musical instruments. While music is an element in most theatre performance, Irish Traditional Music (ITM) figures centrally in much Irish theatre, signaling the cultural a…