Ireland is generally considered to be largely absent from Renaissance drama, but O'Neill (English, National U. of Ireland-Maynooth) finds many references to Ireland and the Irish, particularly in late-Elizabethan plays. Indeed, he says, the stage provided a fluid though licensed space where interest in Ireland and anxieties about Irish alterity could negotiated and played out while skirting political censorship. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)