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Shakespeare, Spenser, and the crisis in Ireland
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997 |
| Schriftenreihe: | Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture
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| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Bibliogr. Zusammenhang: | Print version:
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| ISBN: | 9780511581915 0511581912 9780521581998 0521581990 9780521030830 0521030838 |
| Anmerkungen: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2016) |
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| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511581915 |
| wird zitiert von: | 45 Titel im Zitationsindex COCI |
| Mehr zum Titel: | 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. |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |