Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland

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.

Author: Christopher Highley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/13/1998
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780521581998

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