Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland

Klappentext A study of the literary representation of Ireland in English Renaissance writing. Zusammenfassung Christopher Highley's study shows how writers from the English Renaissance produced a complex discourse about Ireland that cannot be reduced to a simple ethnic opposition. Highley argues that this interaction became a profound factor in the definition of an English poetic self. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 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 VI; 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; Notes; List of works cited; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Highley, Christopher (Ohio State University) Highley
• Assisted by: Anne Barton (Editor), Stephen Orgel (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.01.2007
• EAN: 9780521030830
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03083-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissan
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies