Shakespeare, Spenser and the Matter of Britain

by Andrew Hadfield

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349431915
• ISBN13: 9781349431915
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"