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In his play St Patrick for Ireland (published in 1640), the Caroline dramatist, James Shirley (1596-1666), represents the complex process of Ireland's conversion from paganism to Christianity. This chapter argues that Shirley's reworking of Ireland's key hagiographical narrative is a specifically dramatic attempt to engage with issues of political and religious controversy. It explores the ways in which discourses of religious partisanship, ethnicity and culture function in Shirley's drama and their links with issues of contemporary import in the highly charged political atmosphere immediately preceding the Civil War. The chapter explores Shirley's specifically dramatic response to the issues of political and religious controversy that shaped the cultural context within which he was writing in early modern Dublin. It focuses on Shirley's representations of conversion and his indebtedness to hagiography and medieval drama. Keywords:Christianity; conversion; Dublin; James Shirley; St Patrick for Ireland
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