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Shakespeare Spenser & the Cris

Shakespeare Spenser & the Cris

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Book 23

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521030838
ISBN13: 9780521030830
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 18 2007
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 such as 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.

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