British identities and English Renaissance literature
By: edited by David J. Baker and Willy Maley.
Contributors: Baker, David J., 1957-; Maley, Willy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; National characteristics, British, in literature.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; Group identity in literature.; Renaissance -- Great Britain.
Description: "In this volume, a team of leading Renaissance literary critics read a broad range of texts from the period, including the plays of Shakespeare, in light of the new British history. Prominent historians respond to the issues raised by the volume. This collection opens up a new kind of literary history and has pressing relevance for discussions of 'Britishness' today. This volume should interest all literary and political historians working on the British identities and Renaissance literature."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-291) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I OPENING THE FIELD; title: 1 British history and 'The British history': the same old story?; title: Philip Schwyzer; title: 2 Revising criticism: Ireland and the British model; title: Andrew Murphy; title: II CONTESTED PERIPHERIES; title: 3 'The lost British lamb': English Catholic exiles and the problem of Britain; title: Christopher Highley; title: 4 Making history: Holinshed's Irish Chronicles, 1577 and 1587; title: Richard A. McCabe; title: III BRITISH SHAKESPEARE; title: 5 Henry IV: metatheatrical Britain; title: Matthew Greenfield; title: 6 Uncertain unions: Welsh leeks in Henry V; title: Patricia Parker; title: 7 Delving to the root: Cymbeline, Scotland, and the English race; title: Mary Floyd- Wilson; title: IV UNION QUESTIONS; title: 8 Reinventing the matter of Britain: undermining the state in Jacobean masques; title: Philippa Berry and Jayne Elisabeth Archer; title: 9 'Mapping British identities: Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine; title: Christopher Ivic; title: V BRITAIN'S BRAVE NEW WORLD; title: 10 Bruited abroad:John White and Thomas Harriot's colonial representations of ancient Britain; title: Andrew Hadfield; title: 11 The commonwealth of the word: New England, Old England, and the praying Indians; title: Linda Gregerson; title: VI RESTORING BRITAIN; title: 12 Orrery's Ireland and the British problem, 1641-1679; title: John Kerrigan; title: 13 Jacobite literature and national identities; title: Murray Pittock; title: VII HISTORIANS RESPOND; title: 14 Literature and the new British and Irish histories; title: Jane Ohlmeyer; title: 15 Text, time, and the pursuit of 'British identities'; title: Derek Hirst.