England''s Insular Imagining - The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Writing the Forgotten War I: Henry's War, 1542-7; 2. Writing the Forgotten War II: Somerset's War, 1547-1550; 3. How England Became an Island: The Faerie Queene; 4. Scotland sui juris? Scottish Literature and the Marian Constitutional Crisis, 1567-73; 5. On the Knees of the Body Politic: Scottish Succession and English Liberties, 1567-1608; 6. Scotland Un-kingdomed: English History on Stage; 7. Race-Making in the Invention of Britain: The Masque of Blackness; 8. Divisions and Kingdoms: Oedipal Britain from Gorboduc to King Lear; Coda: Macbeth. 'Alas, poor country'.

About the author

Lorna Hutson is Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies at Oxford. She is the author of many books including Thomas Nashe in Context, The Usurer's Daughter, The Invention of Suspicion (which won the Roland Bainton Prize), and Circumstantial Shakespeare. She is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700, which won the Bainton Reference Prize in 2018.

Product details

• Authors: Lorna Hutson, Lorna (University of Oxford ) Hutson, Hutson Lorna
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.11.2023
• EAN: 9781009253574
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0925357-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Scotland, Literary studies: general, European history: Renaissance, Later 16th century c 1550 to c 1599, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean