Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) Book

Christopher Highley's book explores the most serious crisis the Elizabethan regime faced: its attempts to subdue and colonise 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. 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.Read More

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  • 0521030838
  • 9780521030830
  • Christopher Highley
  • 18 January 2007
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 264
  • New Ed
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