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Shakespeare, Spenser and the Matter of Britain

Author : A. Hadfield
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230502709
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Spenser and the Matter of Britain written by A. Hadfield and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-11-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare, Spencer and the Matter of Britain examines the work of two of the most important English Renaissance authors in terms of the cultural, social and political contexts of early modern Britain. Andrew Hadfield demonstrates that the poetry of Edmund Spenser and the plays of William Shakespeare demand to be read in terms of an expanding Elizabethan and Jacobean culture in which a dominant English identity had to come to terms with the Irish, Scots and Welsh who were now also subjects of the crown.

Shakespeare, Spenser and the Matter of Britain

Author : A. Hadfield
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333993132
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Spenser and the Matter of Britain written by A. Hadfield and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-11-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare, Spencer and the Matter of Britain examines the work of two of the most important English Renaissance authors in terms of the cultural, social and political contexts of early modern Britain. Andrew Hadfield demonstrates that the poetry of Edmund Spenser and the plays of William Shakespeare demand to be read in terms of an expanding Elizabethan and Jacobean culture in which a dominant English identity had to come to terms with the Irish, Scots and Welsh who were now also subjects of the crown.

Shakespeare and Spenser

Author : J. B. Lethbridge
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847797431
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Spenser written by J. B. Lethbridge and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and Spenser: Attractive opposites is a much-needed volume that brings together ten original papers by experts on the relations between Spenser and Shakespeare. There has been much noteworthy work on the linguistic borrowings of Shakespeare from Spenser, but the subject has never before been treated systematically, and the linguistic borrowings lead to broader-scale borrowings and influences which are treated here. An additional feature of the book is that for the first time a large bibliography of previous work is offered which will be of the greatest help to those who follow up the opportunities offered by this collection. Shakespeare and Spenser: Attractive opposites presents new approaches, heralding a resurgence of interest in the relations between two of the greatest Renaissance English poets to a wider scholarly group and in a more systematic manner than before. This will be of interest to Students and academics interested in Renaissance literature.

Milton, Toleration, and Nationhood

Author : Elizabeth Sauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107471370
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Milton, Toleration, and Nationhood written by Elizabeth Sauer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Milton lived at a time when English nationalism became entangled with principles and policies of cultural, religious, and ethnic tolerance. Combining political theory with close readings of key texts, this study examines how Milton's polemical and imaginative literature intersects with representations of English Protestant nationhood. Through detailed case studies of Milton's works, Elizabeth Sauer charts the fluctuating narrative of Milton's literary engagements in relation to social, political, and philosophical themes such as ecclesiology, exclusionism, Irish alterity, natural law, disestablishment, geography, and intermarriage. In so doing, Sauer shows the extent to which nationhood and toleration can be subjected to literary and historicist inquiry. Her study makes a salient contribution to Milton studies and to scholarship on early modern literature and the development of the early nation-state.

This England, That Shakespeare

Author : Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317010566
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book This England, That Shakespeare written by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Shakespeare English, British, neither or both? Addressing from various angles the relation of the figure of the national poet/dramatist to constructions of England and Englishness this collection of essays probes the complex issues raised by this question, first through explorations of his plays, principally though not exclusively the histories (Part One), then through discussion of a range of subsequent appropriations and reorientations of Shakespeare and 'his' England (Part Two). If Shakespeare has been taken to stand for Britain as well as England, as if the two were interchangeable, this double identity has come under increasing strain with the break-up - or shake-up - of Britain through devolution and the end of Empire. Essays in Part One examine how the fissure between English and British identities is probed in Shakespeare's own work, which straddles a vital juncture when an England newly independent from Rome was negotiating its place as part of an emerging British state and empire. Essays in Part Two then explore the vexed relations of 'Shakespeare' to constructions of authorial identity as well as national, class, gender and ethnic identities. At this crucial historical moment, between the restless interrogations of the tercentenary celebrations of the Union of Scotland and England in 2007 and the quatercentenary celebrations of the death of the bard in 2016, amid an increasing clamour for a separate English parliament, when the end of Britain is being foretold and when flags and feelings are running high, this collection has a topicality that makes it of interest not only to students and scholars of Shakespeare studies and Renaissance literature, but to readers inside and outside the academy interested in the drama of national identities in a time of transition.

Archipelagic English

Author : John Kerrigan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191615560
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Archipelagic English written by John Kerrigan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeenth-century 'English Literature' has long been thought about in narrowly English terms. Archipelagic English corrects this by devolving anglophone writing, showing how much remarkable work was produced in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and how preoccupied such English authors as Shakespeare, Milton, and Marvell were with the often fraught interactions between ethnic, religious, and national groups around the British-Irish archipelago. This book transforms our understanding of canonical texts from Macbeth to Defoe's Colonel Jack, but it also shows the significance of a whole series of authors (from William Drummond in Scotland to the Earl of Orrery in County Cork) who were prominent during their lifetimes but who have since become neglected because they do not fit the Anglocentric paradigm. With its European and imperial dimensions, and its close attention to the cultural make-up of early modern Britain and Ireland, Archipelagic English authoritatively engages with, questions, and develops the claim now made by historians that the crises of the seventeenth century stem from the instabilities of a state-system which, between 1603 and 1707, was multiple, mixed, and inclined to let local quarrels spiral into all-consuming conflict. This is a major, interdisciplinary contribution to literary and historical scholarship which is also set to influence present-day arguments about devolution, unionism, and nationalism in Britain and Ireland.

Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature

Author : Stewart James Mottram
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843841827
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature written by Stewart James Mottram and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensitive readings of Renaissance texts offer new insights into the perception of imperialism in the sixteenth century.

Shakespeare and Republicanism

Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521816076
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Republicanism written by Andrew Hadfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly praised book, first published in 2005, reveals how political thought critical of the government underpins Shakespeare's writing.

Indography

Author : J. Harris
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137090766
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Indography written by J. Harris and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Europeans invented 'Indians' and populated the world with them. The global history of the term 'Indian' remains largely unwritten and this volume, taking its cue from Shakespeare, asks us to consider the proximities and distances between various early modern discourses of the Indian. Through new analysis of English travel writing, medical treatises, literature, and drama, contributors seek not just to recover unexpected counter-histories but to put pressure on the ways in which we understand race, foreign bodies, and identity in a globalizing age that has still not shed deeply ingrained imperialist habits of marking difference.

A Critical Companion to Spenser Studies

Author : Bart Van Es
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230524567
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book A Critical Companion to Spenser Studies written by Bart Van Es and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an authoritative guide to debate on Elizabethan England's poet laureate. It covers key topics and provides histories for all of the primary texts. Some of today's most prominent Spenser scholars offer accounts of debates on the poet, from the Renaissance to the present day. Essential for those producing new research on Spenser.

Staging Britain's Past

Author : Kim Gilchrist
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135016335X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Staging Britain's Past written by Kim Gilchrist and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging Britain's Past is the first study of the early modern performance of Britain's pre-Roman history. The mythic history of the founding of Britain by the Trojan exile Brute and the subsequent reign of his descendants was performed through texts such as Norton and Sackville's Gorboduc, Shakespeare's King Lear and Cymbeline, as well as civic pageants, court masques and royal entries such as Elizabeth I's 1578 entry to Norwich. Gilchrist argues for the power of performed history to shape early modern conceptions of the past, ancestry, and national destiny, and demonstrates how the erosion of the Brutan histories marks a transformation in English self-understanding and identity. When published in 1608, Shakespeare's King Lear claimed to be a “True Chronicle History”. Lear was said to have ruled Britain centuries before the Romans, a descendant of the mighty Trojan Brute who had conquered Britain and slaughtered its barbaric giants. But this was fake history. Shakespeare's contemporaries were discovering that Brute and his descendants, once widely believed as proof of glorious ancient origins, were a mischievous medieval invention. Offering a comprehensive account of the extraordinary theatrical tradition that emerged from these Brutan histories and the reasons for that tradition's disappearance, this study gathers all known evidence of the plays, pageants and masques portraying Britain's ancient rulers. Staging Britain's Past reveals how the loss of England's Trojan origins is reflected in plays and performances from Gorboduc's powerful invocation of history to Cymbeline's elegiac erosion of all notions of historical truth.

Shakespeare's Literary Authorship

Author : Patrick Cheney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521881668
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Literary Authorship written by Patrick Cheney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-26 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers Shakespeare as a literary figure, analysing his full professional career, both poetry and plays.

Studies in Spenser's Historical Allegory

Author : Edwin Greenlaw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136910611
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Spenser's Historical Allegory written by Edwin Greenlaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1969. This volume consists of four papers of the late Professor Greenlaw, the first two not before published. Chapter I was read before the History of Ideas Club at The Johns Hopkins University, December 15, 1927. Chapter II represents material used in the English Conference and Seminary at Hopkins and read as the presidential address before The Johns Hopkins Philological Association in October, 1929. Chapter III is a reprint of Professor Greenlaw’s article, Spenser and the Earl of Leicester,’’ from Publications of the Modern Language Association 25 (1910) and Chapter IV is a reprint of his Spenser and British Imperialism” from Modern Philology 9 (1912).

Shakespeare and National Identity

Author : Christopher Ivic
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472525833
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and National Identity written by Christopher Ivic and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arden Shakespeare Dictionary on Shakespeare and National Identity makes a timely and valuable contribution to the discipline. National identity in the early modern period is a central topic of scholarly investigation; it is also a dominant topic in classroom instruction and discussion. More than any other early modern playwright, Shakespeare (especially his history plays) is at the heart of recent critical investigations into a host of relevant topics: borders, history, identity, land, memory, nation, place and space. This Dictionary works through Shakespeare's plays and the cultural moment in which they were produced to provide a rich and informative account of such topics. An ideal reference work for upper level students and scholars and an essential resource for any literary library.

Shakespeare and Scotland

Author : Willy Maley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526135108
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Scotland written by Willy Maley and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and Scotland is a timely collection of new essays in which leading scholars on both sides of the Atlantic address a neglected national context for an exemplary body of dramatic work too often viewed within a narrow English milieu or against a broad British backdrop. These essays explore, from a variety of critical perspectives, the playwright's place in Scotland and the place of Scotland in his work. From critical reception to dramatic and cinematic adaptation, the contributors engage with the complexity of Shakespeare's Scotland and Scotland's Shakespeare. The influence of Scotland on Shakespeare's writing, and later on his reception, is set alongside the dramatic effects that Shakespeare's work had on the development of Scottish literature, from the Globe to globalisation, and from Captain Jamy and King James to radical productions at the Citizens' Theatre in Glasgow.

Disgust in Early Modern English Literature

Author : Natalie K. Eschenbaum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317149629
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Disgust in Early Modern English Literature written by Natalie K. Eschenbaum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of disgust or revulsion in early modern English literature? How did early modern English subjects experience revulsion and how did writers represent it in poetry, plays, and prose? What does it mean when literature instructs, delights, and disgusts? This collection of essays looks at the treatment of disgust in texts by Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Herrick, and others to demonstrate how disgust, perhaps more than other affects, gives us a more complex understanding of early modern culture. Dealing with descriptions of coagulated eye drainage, stinky leeks, and blood-filled fleas, among other sensational things, the essays focus on three kinds of disgusting encounters: sexual, cultural, and textual. Early modern English writers used disgust to explore sexual mores, describe encounters with foreign cultures, and manipulate their readers' responses. The essays in this collection show how writers deployed disgust to draw, and sometimes to upset, the boundaries that had previously defined acceptable and unacceptable behaviors, people, and literatures. Together they present the compelling argument that a critical understanding of early modern cultural perspectives requires careful attention to disgust.

Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England

Author : R. Loughnane
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137349352
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England written by R. Loughnane and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England is a groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays, drawing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss and challenge critical assumptions about the transgressive nature of the early modern English stage. These essays shed new light on issues of gender, race, sexuality, law and politics. Staged Transgression was followed by a companion collection, Staged Normality in Shakespeare's England (2019), also available from Palgrave: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-00892-5