Shakespeare Spenser and the Matter of Britain

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Shakespeare Spenser and the Matter of Britain

Author	: A. Hadfield
File Size	: 43,6 Mb
Publisher	: Springer
Language	: English
Release Date	: 19 November 2003
ISBN	: 9780230502703
Pages	: 220 pages

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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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