Overview
Christopher Highley's book explores the most serious crisis the Elizabethan regime faced: its attempts to subdue and colonize the native Irish. Through a range of literary representations from Shakespeare and Spenser, and contemporaries such as John Hooker, John Derricke, George Peele and Thomas Churchyard he shows how these writers produced a complex discourse about Ireland that cannot be reduced to a simple ethnic opposition. Highley argues that the confrontation between an English imperial presence and a Gaelic "other" was a profound factor in the definition of an English poetic self.
- | Author: Christopher Highley
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Jan 18, 2007
- | Number of Pages: 264 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0521030838
- | ISBN-13: 9780521030830
