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Author Highley, Christopher

Title Shakespeare, Spenser, and the crisis in Ireland / Christopher Highley
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 23
Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 23.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-239) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- History
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Knowledge -- Ireland
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Ireland
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- knowledge
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 fast
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 gnd
Spenser, Edmund 1552-1599 gnd
Shakespeare, William. swd
Spenser, Edmund. swd
Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Historical drama, English -- History and criticism
British -- Ireland -- History -- 16th century
Renaissance -- England
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
British
English literature -- Early modern
Historical drama, English
Historiography
Literature
Public opinion, English
Renaissance
Literatur
Irlandbild
Irische Frage
Toneelstukken.
SUBJECT Ireland -- Foreign public opinion, English -- History -- 16th century
Ireland -- History -- 1558-1603 -- Historiography
Ireland -- In literature
Ireland. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79063445
Ireland
Subject England
Ireland
Irland <Motiv>
Englisch.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585000573
9780585000572
9780511000737
0511000731
0511581912
9780511581915