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Shakespeare, Spenser and the Matter of Britain

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  1. Andrew Hadfield
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Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: English Literature and Anglicised Britain

    • Andrew Hadfield
    Pages 1-11

  3. Crossing the Borders: Ireland and the Irish between England and America

    • Andrew Hadfield
    Pages 12-26

  4. English Colonialism and National Identity in Early Modern Ireland

    • Andrew Hadfield
    Pages 27-42

  5. Malcolm in the Middle: James VI and I, George Buchanan and the Divine Right of Kings

    • Andrew Hadfield
    Pages 43-58

  6. ‘Bruited Abroad’: John White and Thomas Harriot’s Colonial Representations of Ancient Britain

    • Andrew Hadfield
    Pages 59-76

  7. Translating the Reformation: John Bale’s Irish Vocacyon

    • Andrew Hadfield
    Pages 77-89

  8. Cicero, Tacitus and the Reform of Ireland in the 1590s

    • Andrew Hadfield
    Pages 90-104

  9. From English to British Literature: John Lyly’s Euphues and the 1590 The Faerie Queene

    • Andrew Hadfield
    Pages 105-121

  10. Spenser and the Stuart Succession

    • Andrew Hadfield
    Pages 122-136

  11. Spenser, Drayton and the Question of Britain

    • Andrew Hadfield
    Pages 137-150

  12. Shakespeare’s Ecumenical Britain

    • Andrew Hadfield
    Pages 151-168

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 169-220
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Shakespeare, Spencer and the Matter of Britain examines the work of two of the most important English Renaissance authors in terms of the cultural, social and political contexts of early modern Britain. Andrew Hadfield demonstrates that the poetry of Edmund Spenser and the plays of William Shakespeare demand to be read in terms of an expanding Elizabethan and Jacobean culture in which a dominant English identity had to come to terms with the Irish, Scots and Welsh who were now also subjects of the crown.

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'Over the past fifteen years, the work of Andrew Hadfield has been at the forefront of examining Ireland's importance for the Elizabethan imagination. His new collection of essays...usefully assembles a number of pieces that have appeared over the past decade, with two previously unpublished papers.' - Times Literary Supplement

'Hadfield's argument is exciting and stimulating...surely deserves gratitude of Shakespeareans and Spenserians for preventing both misopolitical reading and naive politicization of the early modern texts' - Mari Mizuno, Studies in English Literature, English No.47, (Mar., 2006)

About the author

ANDREW HADFIELD is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Shakespeare and Renaissance Political Culture (2003) and Edmund Spenser's Irish Experience (1997), as well as numerous other studies of Renaissance literature and culture. He is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Spenser (2001), and has taught at universities in Ireland, Wales, England and the USA.

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