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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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| Collection: | Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;
23. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction: Elizabeth's other isle
- 1. Spenser's Irish courts
- 2. Reversing the conquest: deputies, rebels, and Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI
- 3. Ireland, Wales, and the representation of England's borderlands
- 4. The Tyrone rebellion and the gendering of colonial resistance in 1 Henry IV
- 5. "A softe kind of warre": Spenser and the female reformation of Ireland
- 6. "If the Cause be not good": Henry V and Essex's Irish campaign.