Early Modern Literature in History

Hadfield, A.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2003-11-19

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333993132

DOI: 10.1057/9780230502703

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 220