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Shakespeare, Spenser, and the crisis in Ireland /
Ireland is increasingly recognized as a crucial element in early modern British literary and political history. Christopher Highley's book explores the most serious crisis the Elizabethan regime faced: its attempts to subdue and colonize the native Irish. Through a range of literary representat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;
23. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Ireland is increasingly recognized as a crucial element in early modern British literary and political history. Christopher Highley's book explores the most serious crisis the Elizabethan regime faced: its attempts to subdue and colonize the native Irish. Through a range of literary representations from Shakespeare and Spenser, and contemporaries like John Hooker, John Derricke, George Peele and Thomas Churchyard he shows how these writers produced a complex discourse about Ireland that cannot be reduced to a simple ethnic opposition. This book challenges traditional views about the impact of Spenser's experience in Ireland on his cultural identity, while also arguing that the interaction between English and Ireland is a powerful and provocative subtext in the work of Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists. Highley argues that the confrontation between an English imperial presence and a Gaelic 'other' was a profound factor in the definition of an English poetic self. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-239) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585000573 9780585000572 9780511000737 0511000731 0511581912 9780511581915 |