Shakespeare, Spenser and the Contours of Britain: Reshaping the Atlantic Archipelago

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Univ of Hertfordshire Press, 2004 - 182 من الصفحات
Issues of gender, religion, and landscape in the works of Shakespeare and Spenser are examined through the lens of colonialism and national identity in this literary critical analysis. This period in early modern English literature is marked by a redefinition of what it means to be British, and close readings of the texts reveal Spenser's developing (and ambivalent) sense of Irishness and Shakespeare's alleged Catholic recusancy. The relationship between biographical details and imaginative writing reveal the conflicting issues of literary reputation and identity that make discussions of nationalism so complex. Pastoralism versus ruralism and internal insurrection versus foreign invasion are among the themes discussed.

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Marrying waterways and resolving conflict
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Conclusion
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Works cited
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Dr Joan Fitzpatrick is Lecturer in English Literature at University College, Northampton, specialising in the Renaissance. She is the author of Irish Demons: English writings on Ireland, the Irish and gender by Spenser and his contemporaries (2000), has published articles on Shakespeare, Spenser, Ireland and gender and writes the "Spenser and Sidney" section of The Year's Work in English Studies.

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