English Renaissance Drama and the Specter of Spain

English Renaissance Drama and the Specter of Spain
Author: Eric J. Griffin
Publsiher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2012-02-28
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780812202106

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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 troubles? Or have we failed—for reasons cultural and institutional—to hear the Hispanophobic crosstalk that permeated the drama no less than England's other public discourses? Imagining an early modern public sphere in which dramatists cross pens with proto-imperialists, Protestant polemicists, recusant apologists, and a Machiavellian network of propagandists that included high government officials as well as journeyman printers, Eric Griffin uncovers the rhetorical strategies through which the Hispanophobic perspectives that shaped the so-called Black Legend of Spanish Cruelty were written into English cultural memory. At the same time, he demonstrates that the English were as ready to invoke Spain in the spirit of envious emulation as to demonize the Spanish other as an ethnic agent of intolerance and oppression. Interrogating the Whiggish orientation that has continued to view the English Renaissance through a haze of Anglo-American triumphalism, English Renaissance Drama and the Specter of Spain recovers the voices of key Spanish participants and the "Hispanized" Catholic resistance, revealing how England and Spain continued to draw upon shared traditions and cultural resources, even during the moments of their most storied confrontation.

Renaissance Drama in England and Spain

Renaissance Drama in England and Spain
Author: John C. Loftis
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1987-01-01
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 060807134X

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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Author: S. P. Cerasano
Publsiher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2011
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780838643181

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Re imagining Western European Geography in English Renaissance Drama

Re imagining Western European Geography in English Renaissance Drama
Author: M. Matei-Chesnoiu
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2012-07-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781137029331

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Matei-Chesnoiu examines the changing understanding of world geography in sixteenth-century England and the concomitant involvement of the London theatre in shaping a new perception of Western European space. Fresh readings are offered of Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, Dekker, Massinger, Marston, and others.

English Drama Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

English Drama  Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
Author: Oxford University Press
Publsiher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780199809608

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This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of European history and culture between the 14th and 17th centuries. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.

Handbook of English Renaissance Literature

Handbook of English Renaissance Literature
Author: Ingo Berensmeyer
Publsiher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 748
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9783110444889

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This handbook of English Renaissance literature serves as a reference for both students and scholars, introducing recent debates and developments in early modern studies. Using new theoretical perspectives and methodological tools, the volume offers exemplary close readings of canonical and less well-known texts from all significant genres between c. 1480 and 1660. Its systematic chapters address questions about editing Renaissance texts, the role of translation, theatre and drama, life-writing, science, travel and migration, and women as writers, readers and patrons. The book will be of particular interest to those wishing to expand their knowledge of the early modern period beyond Shakespeare.

Bad Humor

Bad Humor
Author: Kimberly Anne Coles
Publsiher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2022-04-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780812298352

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Race, in the early modern period, is a concept at the crossroads of a set of overlapping concerns of lineage, religion, and nation. In Bad Humor, Kimberly Anne Coles charts how these concerns converged around a pseudoscientific system that confirmed the absolute difference between Protestants and Catholics, guaranteed the noble quality of English blood, and justified English colonial domination. Coles delineates the process whereby religious error, first resident in the body, becomes marked on the skin. Early modern medical theory bound together psyche and soma in mutual influence. By the end of the sixteenth century, there is a general acceptance that the soul's condition, as a consequence of religious belief or its absence, could be manifest in the humoral disposition of the physical body. The history that this book unfolds describes developments in natural philosophy in the early part of the sixteenth century that force a subsequent reconsideration of the interactions of body and soul and that bring medical theory and theological discourse into close, even inextricable, contact. With particular consideration to how these ideas are reflected in texts by Elizabeth Cary, John Donne, Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Mary Wroth, and others, Coles reveals how science and religion meet nascent capitalism and colonial endeavor to create a taxonomy of Christians in Black and White.

Theatre Cultures within Globalising Empires

Theatre Cultures within Globalising Empires
Author: Joachim Küpper,Leonie Pawlita
Publsiher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2018-08-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783110612035

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This volume presents the proceedings of the international conference “Theatre Cultures within Globalising Empires: Looking at Early Modern England and Spain”, held in 2012 as part of the ERC Advanced Grant Project Early Modern European Drama and the Cultural Net (DramaNet). Implementing the concept of culture as a virtual network, it investigates Early modern European drama and its global dissemination. The 12 articles of the volume – all written by experts in the field teaching in the United Kingdom, the USA, Russia, Switzerland, India and Germany – focus on a selection of English and Spanish dramas from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Analysing and comparing motifs, formal parameters as well as plot structures, they discuss the commonalities and differences of Early modern drama in England and Spain.