Shakespeare, Spenser and the Matter of Britain (Early Modern Literature in History)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction: English Literature and Anglicised Britain......Page 12
1 Crossing the Borders: Ireland and the Irish between England and America......Page 23
2 English Colonialism and National Identity in Early Modern Ireland......Page 38
3 Malcolm in the Middle: James VI and I, George Buchanan and the Divine Right of Kings......Page 54
4 ‘Bruited Abroad’: John White and Thomas Harriot’s Colonial Representations of Ancient Britain......Page 70
5 Translating the Reformation: John Bale’s Irish Vocacyon......Page 88
6 Cicero, Tacitus and the Reform of Ireland in the 1590s......Page 101
7 From English to British Literature: John Lyly’s Euphues and the 1590 The Faerie Queene......Page 116
8 Spenser and the Stuart Succession......Page 133
9 Spenser, Drayton and the Question of Britain......Page 148
10 Shakespeare’s Ecumenical Britain......Page 162
Notes......Page 180
C......Page 225
E......Page 226
H......Page 227
M......Page 228
P......Page 229
S......Page 230
Y......Page 231