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 | | Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Christopher Highley ISBN-10: 9780521581998 ISBN-10: 0-521-58199-0 ISBN-13: 9780521581998 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-58199-8 Hardcover 1998-01-13 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description 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. | ||
Book Description 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. | ||