English Renaissance drama and the specter of Spain : ethnopoetics and empire /

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Eric J. Griffin discovers the rhetorical strategies through which the Hispanophobic perspectives now known as the Black Legend of Spanish Cruelty were written into English cultural memory.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Griffin, Eric J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2009.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Knowledge > Spain.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
1500-1699
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
National characteristics, Spanish, in literature.
Public opinion > Great Britain > History.
Théâtre anglais > 16e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Théâtre anglais > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Espagnols dans la littérature.
Opinion publique > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English drama
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan
International relations
Literature
National characteristics, Spanish, in literature
Public opinion
Public opinion, British
Spain > In literature.
Spain > Foreign public opinion, British > History.
Great Britain > Relations > Spain.
Spain > Relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain
Spain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the specter of Spain
  • From ethos to ethnos
  • A long and lively antithesis
  • Thomas Kyd's tragedy of "the spains"
  • Marlowe among the machevills
  • Shakespeare's comical history
  • Othello's Spanish spirits: or, un-sainting James
  • Afterword: a natural enemy.

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