Shakespeare, Spenser, and the crisis in Ireland /

Shakespeare, Spenser, and the crisis in Ireland /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Highley, Christopher.
Imprint:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 23 Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 23.
Subject:	Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- History. Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Knowledge. Spenser, Edmund, -- 1552?-1599 -- Knowledge -- Ireland. Spenser, Edmund, -- 1552?-1599 -- knowledge Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. Spenser, Edmund, -- 1552?-1599. English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. Historical drama, English -- History and criticism. British -- Ireland -- History -- 16th century. Renaissance -- England. British. English literature -- Early modern. Historical drama, English. Historiography. Literature. Public opinion, English. Renaissance. Ireland -- Foreign public opinion, English -- History -- 16th century. Ireland -- History -- 1558-1603 -- Historiography. Ireland -- In literature. Ireland. England. Ireland. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11101637

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ISBN:	0585000573 9780585000572 0521581990 9780511000737 0511000731 9780521581998 0511581912 9780511581915
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-239) and index. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Highley, Christopher. Shakespeare, Spenser, and the crisis in Ireland. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997 0521581990

Table of 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.