British Identities and English Renaissance Literature

, by Edited by David J. Baker , Willy Maley

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ISBN: 9780521189682 | 0521189683
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 6/2/2011

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Though British history and identity in the early modern period are intensively researched areas, the role of literature in the construction of "Britishness" has not been thoroughly studied. In this volume, leading Renaissance literary critics review a broad range of texts from the period, including plays of Shakespeare, in view of the new British history. This collection opens up a new kind of literary history with immediate relevance to contemporary discussions of "Britishness."

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Introduction
Opening the Field:
British history and 'the British history': the same old story?
An uncertain union
Revising criticism: Ireland and the British model
Contested Peripheries:
'The lost British lamb': English Catholic exiles and the problem of Britain
'Making history': Holinshed's Irish chronicles, 1577 and 1587
British Shakespeare:
Henry IV: metatheatrical Britain
Uncertain unions: Welsh leeks in Henry
Delving to the root: Cymbeline, Scotland, and the English race
Union Questions:
Reinventing the matter of Britain: undermining the state in Jacobean masques
Mapping British identities: Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine
Britain's Brave New World:
Bruited abroad: John White and Thomas Harriot's Colonial Representations of Ancient Britain
The Commonwealth of the Word: New England, Old England, and the Praying Indians
Restoring Britain:
Orrery's Ireland and the British problem, 1641-1679
Jacobite literature and national Identities

Historians respond: literature and the new British and Irish histories
Text, time, and the pursuit of 'British Identities'
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