English Renaissance Drama and the Specter of Spain: Ethnopoetics and Empire

by Eric J. Griffin

The specter of Spain rarely figures in our discussions of the drama that is often regarded as the crowning achievement of the English literary Renaissance. Yet dramatists such as Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare are exactly contemporary with England's protracted conflict with the Spanish Empire, a traditional ally turned archetypical adversary. Were these playwrights really so mute with respect to their nation's Spanish...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812241703
• ISBN13: 9780812241709
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 9.0"