Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2009
Aphra Behn's The Rover (1677) drew heavily from an earlier source, Thomas Killigrew's Thomaso (16... more Aphra Behn's The Rover (1677) drew heavily from an earlier source, Thomas Killigrew's Thomaso (1664), a closet drama supposedly based on Killigrew's life as a royalist exile when he made a brief visit to Madrid. 1 Both Killigrew's and Behn's plays harken back to an earlier period of intense Anglo-Spanish rivalry. In both versions, for example, cunning Spaniards make reference to stealing from "Old Queen Besse" or Queen Elizabeth and, in Behn's version, further reference is made to Spain having had "a quarrel [with Elizabeth] ever since Eighty Eight," a reference to the defeat of the Armada. 2 But, in contrast to Killigrew, Behn's play references a more specific facet of the rivalry with Spain whereby Englishmen were presented as potential liberators of peoples victimized by the Spanish imperium. Behn sets her play in Spanish-occupied Naples, where a group of English royalists arrive and "liberate" the oppressed women, or subjects, that inhabit the city. What is singular about the play is that, since the protagonists, Belvile and Willmore, are exiled royalists, they are liberators according to a monarchical ideology that was anachronistic within Commonwealth England. Of course, Behn's play was first performed in 1677 after the restoration, and thus, one might expect it to show support for the restored monarchical ideology. But as Helen M. Burke has argued, Behn's English "liberators" are also ridiculed throughout the play. 3 In particular, they fail to live up to the sixteenth-and early-seventeenth-century ideal of the English privateer, whom Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Walter Ralegh, and others presented as gallantly rescuing the oppressed from the clutches of Spanish tyranny. 4 In this essay, I suggest that the play both conveys nostalgia for the Elizabethan state and presents an alternative to the Elizabethan adoration of the female sovereign, which formed the basis of late-sixteenth-century English national identity. 5 I consider the play as part of a trajectory of dramatic works
Despite the anti-Spanish thrust of Book Five of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, the manner in... more Despite the anti-Spanish thrust of Book Five of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, the manner in which the principle of equity is applied in the book resembles the Spanish Dominican use of natural law to weigh the ethics of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. In Book Five, the champions Artegall and Britomart face a situation analogous to the Spanish conquest when they confront the Amazon, Radigund, who rules over a city that the narrator characterizes as unnatural. Artegall fails to exercise equity correctly and the result of his failure is his capture and imprisonment by Radigund as well as his eventual liberation by the female knight, Britomart. Britomart's intervention identifies equity as a feminine principle, presumably in order to identify the exercise of equity with Britomart's real-life counterpart, Queen Elizabeth. In the Radigund episode at the center of Book Five, Spenser's poem is caught in a contradiction between his adherence to the principle of " feminized" equity in foreign contexts and his insistence on basic principles of natural law, which were responsible for naturalizing patriarchal gender relations. As a result, one important and available (mis)reading of the book is that the narrative justifies the (Spanish) conquest of England itself and its own "Amazon" queen, Elizabeth, in the interest of restoring a regime based on traditional conceptions of natural law. In this respect, the logic that Book Five follows is similar to that championed by exiled English Catholics, who allied themselves with the Spanish crown against Elizabeth. X M any English jurists viewed the common law as distinctively suited to the English people. 1 Sir John Davies, for example, wrote that the English common law was "so framed and fitted to the nature and disposition of this people, as we may properly say it is connatural to the Nation, so as it cannot possibly be ruled by any other Law" (sig. ¶ ¶). One result of the belief
Tudor historians of Henry VIII's reign strove both to define the great political theological ... more Tudor historians of Henry VIII's reign strove both to define the great political theological controversies of the day and to shape the future understanding of past events. This essay considers how Roman Catholic accounts of the life and martyrdom of Sir Thomas More, including those by Nicholas Harpsfield and Thomas Stapleton, shaped subsequent Protestant works of fiction, written during the 1590s. The essay explores, in particular, the collaborative play, Sir Thomas More, by Anthony Munday and revised by Shakespeare and others; and Sir John Harington's references to More and Bishop John Fisher in the preface to his translation of Orlando Furioso and his extensive anecdotal remarks about More's scatological witticisms in his satirical tract, The Metamorphosis of Ajax. Such fictional works presage both the hesitant trend towards ecumenism and the imagined reunion of Christendom of the subsequent Jacobean reign, and the later emergence of the transnational secular public sp...
This paper considers how Spenser's conception of conscience and universal law and justice in A Vi... more This paper considers how Spenser's conception of conscience and universal law and justice in A View of the Present State of Ireland can be understood within the context of jurist Christopher St. German's early sixteenth-century tract on equity and the common law and his subsequent tracts on the reformation of Church corruption. The paper attempts to re-situate Spenser's engagement with legal and political theory within the context of English legal education as it had developed throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Ultimately, it shows that Spenser's engagement with law, theology and politics reflected a commitment to a new Protestant conception of transnational Christendom as well as a re-conception of England as a Protestant nation within that transnational entity.
doubt every curriculum has its discontents. Newstok could do more, however, to reckon with the fa... more doubt every curriculum has its discontents. Newstok could do more, however, to reckon with the fact that Shakespeare-the most brilliant product of this curriculum-was also one of its most penetrating critics. But this may be asking How to Think Like Shakespeare to be something it is not, rather than the book that it is: a bracing, witty argument for a pedagogy that is at once old and new. In his final chapter, Newstok reimagines the liberal arts as "crafts of freedom," ways of helping us to "reach our fullest capacities. .. by emulating aspirational models" (151). We can sense the true stakes of Newstok's book in the utopian horizon that freedom invokes. But Newstok doesn't promise utopia. Instead, what he demonstrates in his playful, infectiously enthusiastic pages is a more modest and more proximate idea of freedom: the kind that appears in the sheer joy of reading and learning. That joy, and the freedom it brings, come when we care about what we study. And no one has ever cared-not really-about a test.
This article considers the writings of Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser within the context of Eur... more This article considers the writings of Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser within the context of European religious conflicts between Protestants and Catholics, amid the perceived Ottoman threat to Christendom. In their fictional works, these authors imagine an overarching authority that might replace the traditional papal power of oversight and deposing in order to regulate temporal sovereigns and foster a unity of Christian princes within Europe. Even as they can be read as reimagining Christendom, their fictional works reflect what Charles Taylor has called the “disenchantment” of sacred spaces within his philosophical history of the emergence of secularity within European cultures.
... and Sir John Davies, Le Reports des cases & matters en Ley, resolves & adjudg... more ... and Sir John Davies, Le Reports des cases & matters en Ley, resolves & adjudges en les courtsdel roy en Ireland ... Lisa Jardine, Encountering Ireland: Gabriel Harvey, Edmund Spenser, and English Colonial Ventures,Representing Ireland: Literature and the Origins of Conflict ...
Like the Spanish administrators of the American territories, English administrators of Ireland a... more Like the Spanish administrators of the American territories, English administrators of Ireland attempted to impose their own native legal system on the Irish inhabitants. Nonetheless, important differences existed between the two kingdoms' legal approaches to their respective colonial contexts. Because Spanish jurisprudence was allied with universalist Catholic doctrine and was officially based on Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis (the ancient Roman legal code which had close affinities to natural law discourse), Spanish administrators expected New World inhabitants to accept what they considered to be the "universal values" that were inherent in Spanish law. In contrast English common law had its roots not in natural law but in the peculiar customs of the English people. Thus, while the Spanish were able to claim that they were replacing unnatural Indian customs with a legal system rooted in universal natural law, the English were attempting to reform what they considered to be the unnatural practices of the Irish by imposing a legal system defined by its insularity and its peculiar affinity with English institutions. In this essay I show that Renaissance ethnographies on Ireland by such English administrators of Ireland as Edmund Spenser, Sir John Davies, and Fynes Moryson are fractured by a conflict between a commitment to natural-law theory, which had its origin in continental writings, and a corresponding commitment to the native English tradition of common law. I examine how works by Spenser, Davies, and Moryson dealt with this conflict within their collective project of articulating a legal justification and strategy for the pacification of Ireland.
The Oxford Handbook of Philip Sidney. Ed. Catherine Bates (Chapter 31), 2025
Scholars have traditionally emphasised the Anglocentric and Calvinist influences on what would be... more Scholars have traditionally emphasised the Anglocentric and Calvinist influences on what would become Philip Sidney’s so-called Protestant poetics. In contrast, this chapter shows that, while Sidney subscribed to the anti-papal and anti-Spanish views of his uncle Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, his perspective on sectarianism and Christian unity was more complex and nuanced than once was thought. Sidney’s religious perspective was predominantly shaped by his friendships with such continental luminaries as Hubert Languet and Philippe Du Plessis-Mornay, both of whom were influenced by the post-Lutheran ecumenical approach of Philip Melanchthon. This chapter shows that Sidney’s Protestant outlook was both ecumenical and cosmopolitan and that, despite his deep antipathy for the papacy and the Church of Rome, his fictional writings betray a grudging respect for traditional Roman Catholic conceptions of Christendom and Christian unity.
Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans considers how the marginalized perspective o... more Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans considers how the marginalized perspective of 16th-century English Catholic exiles and 17th-century English royalist exiles helped to generate a form of cosmopolitanism that was rooted in contemporary religious and national identities but also transcended those identities.
Author Brian C. Lockey argues that English discourses of nationhood were in conversation with two opposing 'cosmopolitan' perspectives, one that sought to cultivate and sustain the emerging English nationalism and imperialism and another that challenged English nationhood from the perspective of those Englishmen who viewed the kingdom as one province within the larger transnational Christian commonwealth.
Lockey illustrates how the latter cosmopolitan perspective, produced within two communities of exiled English subjects, separated in time by half a century, influenced fiction writers such as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Anthony Munday, Sir John Harington, John Milton, and Aphra Behn. Ultimately, he shows that early modern cosmopolitans critiqued the emerging discourse of English nationhood from a traditional religious and political perspective, even as their writings eventually gave rise to later secular Enlightenment forms of cosmopolitanism.
Early modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperia... more Early modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism. As the English colonial enterprise developed, the existing legal tradition of common law no longer solved the moral dilemmas of the new world order, in which England had become, instead of a victim of Catholic enemies, an aggressive force with its own overseas territories. Writers of romance fiction employed narrative strategies in order to resolve this difficulty and, in the process, provided a legal basis for English imperialism. Brian Lockey analyses works by such authors as Shakespeare, Spenser and Sidney in the light of these legal discourses, and uncovers new contexts for the genre of romance. Scholars of early modern literature, as well as those interested in the history of law as the British Empire emerged, will learn much from this insightful and ambitious study.
Brian Lockey, Chapter 11: "Catholics and Cosmopolitans Writing the Nation", pp. 233-55.
Eds. ... more Brian Lockey, Chapter 11: "Catholics and Cosmopolitans Writing the Nation", pp. 233-55.
Eds. Barbara Fuchs and Emily Weissbourd.
Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires. Bringing together studies of English, Spanish, Italian, and Ottoman literature and cultural artifacts, the volume moves from the broadest issues of representation in the Mediterranean to a case study – early modern England – where the “Mediterranean turn” has radically changed the field.
The essays in this wide-ranging literary and cultural study examine the rhetoric which surrounds imperial competition in this era, ranging from poems commemorating the battle of Lepanto to elaborately adorned maps of contested frontiers. They will be of interest to scholars in fields such as history, comparative literary studies, and religious studies.
Brian Lockey, Chapter 33, "Empire," pp. 598-616.
Ed. Arthur Kinney.
Forty original essays w... more Brian Lockey, Chapter 33, "Empire," pp. 598-616.
Ed. Arthur Kinney.
Forty original essays written by an international team of world-renowned scholars and new scholarly voices
Comprehensive coverage of the key issues of Shakespeare Studies, including texts, performances, the cultural context out of which his writing emerged, and the current state of scholarship
Fresh and stimulating readings of Shakespeare's work
An indispensible volume for anyone studying Shakespeare, from newcomers to advanced scholars
Situated within the Oxford Handbooks to Literature series, the group of Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespearean specialists. Each of these volumes is edited by one or more internationally distinguished Shakespeareans; together, they comprehensively survey the entire field.
An essential resource for the study of Shakespeare, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare is edited by esteemed scholar Arthur Kinney and contains forty specially written essays. It provides fresh and imaginative readings of his plays and poems, reflects on the current state of Shakespeare Studies, and suggests the likely future directions it will take. The Handbook is divided into five sections: 'Texts' explores how Shakespeare wrote, who he collaborated with, the ways in which his works were transmitted, and the reactions of his early readers; 'Conditions' examines the economic, social, artistic, and linguistic forces at play on Shakespeare; 'Works' discusses the various stages of his career; 'Performances' is concerned with issues such as the reception of his plays, the theatre business, and film adaptations; and 'Current Speculations' includes essays on topics ranging from the role of philosophical thought and the influence of classical sources to the relevance of empire, technology, religion, and law. By covering the range of Shakespeare's work in his time and ours, this myriad-minded book deepens and enriches our understanding of the great poet and unparalleled playwright's accomplishments.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2009
Aphra Behn's The Rover (1677) drew heavily from an earlier source, Thomas Killigrew's Thomaso (16... more Aphra Behn's The Rover (1677) drew heavily from an earlier source, Thomas Killigrew's Thomaso (1664), a closet drama supposedly based on Killigrew's life as a royalist exile when he made a brief visit to Madrid. 1 Both Killigrew's and Behn's plays harken back to an earlier period of intense Anglo-Spanish rivalry. In both versions, for example, cunning Spaniards make reference to stealing from "Old Queen Besse" or Queen Elizabeth and, in Behn's version, further reference is made to Spain having had "a quarrel [with Elizabeth] ever since Eighty Eight," a reference to the defeat of the Armada. 2 But, in contrast to Killigrew, Behn's play references a more specific facet of the rivalry with Spain whereby Englishmen were presented as potential liberators of peoples victimized by the Spanish imperium. Behn sets her play in Spanish-occupied Naples, where a group of English royalists arrive and "liberate" the oppressed women, or subjects, that inhabit the city. What is singular about the play is that, since the protagonists, Belvile and Willmore, are exiled royalists, they are liberators according to a monarchical ideology that was anachronistic within Commonwealth England. Of course, Behn's play was first performed in 1677 after the restoration, and thus, one might expect it to show support for the restored monarchical ideology. But as Helen M. Burke has argued, Behn's English "liberators" are also ridiculed throughout the play. 3 In particular, they fail to live up to the sixteenth-and early-seventeenth-century ideal of the English privateer, whom Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Walter Ralegh, and others presented as gallantly rescuing the oppressed from the clutches of Spanish tyranny. 4 In this essay, I suggest that the play both conveys nostalgia for the Elizabethan state and presents an alternative to the Elizabethan adoration of the female sovereign, which formed the basis of late-sixteenth-century English national identity. 5 I consider the play as part of a trajectory of dramatic works
Despite the anti-Spanish thrust of Book Five of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, the manner in... more Despite the anti-Spanish thrust of Book Five of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, the manner in which the principle of equity is applied in the book resembles the Spanish Dominican use of natural law to weigh the ethics of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. In Book Five, the champions Artegall and Britomart face a situation analogous to the Spanish conquest when they confront the Amazon, Radigund, who rules over a city that the narrator characterizes as unnatural. Artegall fails to exercise equity correctly and the result of his failure is his capture and imprisonment by Radigund as well as his eventual liberation by the female knight, Britomart. Britomart's intervention identifies equity as a feminine principle, presumably in order to identify the exercise of equity with Britomart's real-life counterpart, Queen Elizabeth. In the Radigund episode at the center of Book Five, Spenser's poem is caught in a contradiction between his adherence to the principle of " feminized" equity in foreign contexts and his insistence on basic principles of natural law, which were responsible for naturalizing patriarchal gender relations. As a result, one important and available (mis)reading of the book is that the narrative justifies the (Spanish) conquest of England itself and its own "Amazon" queen, Elizabeth, in the interest of restoring a regime based on traditional conceptions of natural law. In this respect, the logic that Book Five follows is similar to that championed by exiled English Catholics, who allied themselves with the Spanish crown against Elizabeth. X M any English jurists viewed the common law as distinctively suited to the English people. 1 Sir John Davies, for example, wrote that the English common law was "so framed and fitted to the nature and disposition of this people, as we may properly say it is connatural to the Nation, so as it cannot possibly be ruled by any other Law" (sig. ¶ ¶). One result of the belief
Tudor historians of Henry VIII's reign strove both to define the great political theological ... more Tudor historians of Henry VIII's reign strove both to define the great political theological controversies of the day and to shape the future understanding of past events. This essay considers how Roman Catholic accounts of the life and martyrdom of Sir Thomas More, including those by Nicholas Harpsfield and Thomas Stapleton, shaped subsequent Protestant works of fiction, written during the 1590s. The essay explores, in particular, the collaborative play, Sir Thomas More, by Anthony Munday and revised by Shakespeare and others; and Sir John Harington's references to More and Bishop John Fisher in the preface to his translation of Orlando Furioso and his extensive anecdotal remarks about More's scatological witticisms in his satirical tract, The Metamorphosis of Ajax. Such fictional works presage both the hesitant trend towards ecumenism and the imagined reunion of Christendom of the subsequent Jacobean reign, and the later emergence of the transnational secular public sp...
This paper considers how Spenser's conception of conscience and universal law and justice in A Vi... more This paper considers how Spenser's conception of conscience and universal law and justice in A View of the Present State of Ireland can be understood within the context of jurist Christopher St. German's early sixteenth-century tract on equity and the common law and his subsequent tracts on the reformation of Church corruption. The paper attempts to re-situate Spenser's engagement with legal and political theory within the context of English legal education as it had developed throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Ultimately, it shows that Spenser's engagement with law, theology and politics reflected a commitment to a new Protestant conception of transnational Christendom as well as a re-conception of England as a Protestant nation within that transnational entity.
doubt every curriculum has its discontents. Newstok could do more, however, to reckon with the fa... more doubt every curriculum has its discontents. Newstok could do more, however, to reckon with the fact that Shakespeare-the most brilliant product of this curriculum-was also one of its most penetrating critics. But this may be asking How to Think Like Shakespeare to be something it is not, rather than the book that it is: a bracing, witty argument for a pedagogy that is at once old and new. In his final chapter, Newstok reimagines the liberal arts as "crafts of freedom," ways of helping us to "reach our fullest capacities. .. by emulating aspirational models" (151). We can sense the true stakes of Newstok's book in the utopian horizon that freedom invokes. But Newstok doesn't promise utopia. Instead, what he demonstrates in his playful, infectiously enthusiastic pages is a more modest and more proximate idea of freedom: the kind that appears in the sheer joy of reading and learning. That joy, and the freedom it brings, come when we care about what we study. And no one has ever cared-not really-about a test.
This article considers the writings of Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser within the context of Eur... more This article considers the writings of Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser within the context of European religious conflicts between Protestants and Catholics, amid the perceived Ottoman threat to Christendom. In their fictional works, these authors imagine an overarching authority that might replace the traditional papal power of oversight and deposing in order to regulate temporal sovereigns and foster a unity of Christian princes within Europe. Even as they can be read as reimagining Christendom, their fictional works reflect what Charles Taylor has called the “disenchantment” of sacred spaces within his philosophical history of the emergence of secularity within European cultures.
... and Sir John Davies, Le Reports des cases & matters en Ley, resolves & adjudg... more ... and Sir John Davies, Le Reports des cases & matters en Ley, resolves & adjudges en les courtsdel roy en Ireland ... Lisa Jardine, Encountering Ireland: Gabriel Harvey, Edmund Spenser, and English Colonial Ventures,Representing Ireland: Literature and the Origins of Conflict ...
Like the Spanish administrators of the American territories, English administrators of Ireland a... more Like the Spanish administrators of the American territories, English administrators of Ireland attempted to impose their own native legal system on the Irish inhabitants. Nonetheless, important differences existed between the two kingdoms' legal approaches to their respective colonial contexts. Because Spanish jurisprudence was allied with universalist Catholic doctrine and was officially based on Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis (the ancient Roman legal code which had close affinities to natural law discourse), Spanish administrators expected New World inhabitants to accept what they considered to be the "universal values" that were inherent in Spanish law. In contrast English common law had its roots not in natural law but in the peculiar customs of the English people. Thus, while the Spanish were able to claim that they were replacing unnatural Indian customs with a legal system rooted in universal natural law, the English were attempting to reform what they considered to be the unnatural practices of the Irish by imposing a legal system defined by its insularity and its peculiar affinity with English institutions. In this essay I show that Renaissance ethnographies on Ireland by such English administrators of Ireland as Edmund Spenser, Sir John Davies, and Fynes Moryson are fractured by a conflict between a commitment to natural-law theory, which had its origin in continental writings, and a corresponding commitment to the native English tradition of common law. I examine how works by Spenser, Davies, and Moryson dealt with this conflict within their collective project of articulating a legal justification and strategy for the pacification of Ireland.
The Oxford Handbook of Philip Sidney. Ed. Catherine Bates (Chapter 31), 2025
Scholars have traditionally emphasised the Anglocentric and Calvinist influences on what would be... more Scholars have traditionally emphasised the Anglocentric and Calvinist influences on what would become Philip Sidney’s so-called Protestant poetics. In contrast, this chapter shows that, while Sidney subscribed to the anti-papal and anti-Spanish views of his uncle Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, his perspective on sectarianism and Christian unity was more complex and nuanced than once was thought. Sidney’s religious perspective was predominantly shaped by his friendships with such continental luminaries as Hubert Languet and Philippe Du Plessis-Mornay, both of whom were influenced by the post-Lutheran ecumenical approach of Philip Melanchthon. This chapter shows that Sidney’s Protestant outlook was both ecumenical and cosmopolitan and that, despite his deep antipathy for the papacy and the Church of Rome, his fictional writings betray a grudging respect for traditional Roman Catholic conceptions of Christendom and Christian unity.
Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans considers how the marginalized perspective o... more Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans considers how the marginalized perspective of 16th-century English Catholic exiles and 17th-century English royalist exiles helped to generate a form of cosmopolitanism that was rooted in contemporary religious and national identities but also transcended those identities.
Author Brian C. Lockey argues that English discourses of nationhood were in conversation with two opposing 'cosmopolitan' perspectives, one that sought to cultivate and sustain the emerging English nationalism and imperialism and another that challenged English nationhood from the perspective of those Englishmen who viewed the kingdom as one province within the larger transnational Christian commonwealth.
Lockey illustrates how the latter cosmopolitan perspective, produced within two communities of exiled English subjects, separated in time by half a century, influenced fiction writers such as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Anthony Munday, Sir John Harington, John Milton, and Aphra Behn. Ultimately, he shows that early modern cosmopolitans critiqued the emerging discourse of English nationhood from a traditional religious and political perspective, even as their writings eventually gave rise to later secular Enlightenment forms of cosmopolitanism.
Early modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperia... more Early modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism. As the English colonial enterprise developed, the existing legal tradition of common law no longer solved the moral dilemmas of the new world order, in which England had become, instead of a victim of Catholic enemies, an aggressive force with its own overseas territories. Writers of romance fiction employed narrative strategies in order to resolve this difficulty and, in the process, provided a legal basis for English imperialism. Brian Lockey analyses works by such authors as Shakespeare, Spenser and Sidney in the light of these legal discourses, and uncovers new contexts for the genre of romance. Scholars of early modern literature, as well as those interested in the history of law as the British Empire emerged, will learn much from this insightful and ambitious study.
Brian Lockey, Chapter 11: "Catholics and Cosmopolitans Writing the Nation", pp. 233-55.
Eds. ... more Brian Lockey, Chapter 11: "Catholics and Cosmopolitans Writing the Nation", pp. 233-55.
Eds. Barbara Fuchs and Emily Weissbourd.
Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires. Bringing together studies of English, Spanish, Italian, and Ottoman literature and cultural artifacts, the volume moves from the broadest issues of representation in the Mediterranean to a case study – early modern England – where the “Mediterranean turn” has radically changed the field.
The essays in this wide-ranging literary and cultural study examine the rhetoric which surrounds imperial competition in this era, ranging from poems commemorating the battle of Lepanto to elaborately adorned maps of contested frontiers. They will be of interest to scholars in fields such as history, comparative literary studies, and religious studies.
Brian Lockey, Chapter 33, "Empire," pp. 598-616.
Ed. Arthur Kinney.
Forty original essays w... more Brian Lockey, Chapter 33, "Empire," pp. 598-616.
Ed. Arthur Kinney.
Forty original essays written by an international team of world-renowned scholars and new scholarly voices
Comprehensive coverage of the key issues of Shakespeare Studies, including texts, performances, the cultural context out of which his writing emerged, and the current state of scholarship
Fresh and stimulating readings of Shakespeare's work
An indispensible volume for anyone studying Shakespeare, from newcomers to advanced scholars
Situated within the Oxford Handbooks to Literature series, the group of Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespearean specialists. Each of these volumes is edited by one or more internationally distinguished Shakespeareans; together, they comprehensively survey the entire field.
An essential resource for the study of Shakespeare, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare is edited by esteemed scholar Arthur Kinney and contains forty specially written essays. It provides fresh and imaginative readings of his plays and poems, reflects on the current state of Shakespeare Studies, and suggests the likely future directions it will take. The Handbook is divided into five sections: 'Texts' explores how Shakespeare wrote, who he collaborated with, the ways in which his works were transmitted, and the reactions of his early readers; 'Conditions' examines the economic, social, artistic, and linguistic forces at play on Shakespeare; 'Works' discusses the various stages of his career; 'Performances' is concerned with issues such as the reception of his plays, the theatre business, and film adaptations; and 'Current Speculations' includes essays on topics ranging from the role of philosophical thought and the influence of classical sources to the relevance of empire, technology, religion, and law. By covering the range of Shakespeare's work in his time and ours, this myriad-minded book deepens and enriches our understanding of the great poet and unparalleled playwright's accomplishments.
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Author Brian C. Lockey argues that English discourses of nationhood were in conversation with two opposing 'cosmopolitan' perspectives, one that sought to cultivate and sustain the emerging English nationalism and imperialism and another that challenged English nationhood from the perspective of those Englishmen who viewed the kingdom as one province within the larger transnational Christian commonwealth.
Lockey illustrates how the latter cosmopolitan perspective, produced within two communities of exiled English subjects, separated in time by half a century, influenced fiction writers such as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Anthony Munday, Sir John Harington, John Milton, and Aphra Behn. Ultimately, he shows that early modern cosmopolitans critiqued the emerging discourse of English nationhood from a traditional religious and political perspective, even as their writings eventually gave rise to later secular Enlightenment forms of cosmopolitanism.
Eds. Barbara Fuchs and Emily Weissbourd.
Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires. Bringing together studies of English, Spanish, Italian, and Ottoman literature and cultural artifacts, the volume moves from the broadest issues of representation in the Mediterranean to a case study – early modern England – where the “Mediterranean turn” has radically changed the field.
The essays in this wide-ranging literary and cultural study examine the rhetoric which surrounds imperial competition in this era, ranging from poems commemorating the battle of Lepanto to elaborately adorned maps of contested frontiers. They will be of interest to scholars in fields such as history, comparative literary studies, and religious studies.
Ed. Arthur Kinney.
Forty original essays written by an international team of world-renowned scholars and new scholarly voices
Comprehensive coverage of the key issues of Shakespeare Studies, including texts, performances, the cultural context out of which his writing emerged, and the current state of scholarship
Fresh and stimulating readings of Shakespeare's work
An indispensible volume for anyone studying Shakespeare, from newcomers to advanced scholars
Situated within the Oxford Handbooks to Literature series, the group of Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespearean specialists. Each of these volumes is edited by one or more internationally distinguished Shakespeareans; together, they comprehensively survey the entire field.
An essential resource for the study of Shakespeare, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare is edited by esteemed scholar Arthur Kinney and contains forty specially written essays. It provides fresh and imaginative readings of his plays and poems, reflects on the current state of Shakespeare Studies, and suggests the likely future directions it will take. The Handbook is divided into five sections: 'Texts' explores how Shakespeare wrote, who he collaborated with, the ways in which his works were transmitted, and the reactions of his early readers; 'Conditions' examines the economic, social, artistic, and linguistic forces at play on Shakespeare; 'Works' discusses the various stages of his career; 'Performances' is concerned with issues such as the reception of his plays, the theatre business, and film adaptations; and 'Current Speculations' includes essays on topics ranging from the role of philosophical thought and the influence of classical sources to the relevance of empire, technology, religion, and law. By covering the range of Shakespeare's work in his time and ours, this myriad-minded book deepens and enriches our understanding of the great poet and unparalleled playwright's accomplishments.
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Author Brian C. Lockey argues that English discourses of nationhood were in conversation with two opposing 'cosmopolitan' perspectives, one that sought to cultivate and sustain the emerging English nationalism and imperialism and another that challenged English nationhood from the perspective of those Englishmen who viewed the kingdom as one province within the larger transnational Christian commonwealth.
Lockey illustrates how the latter cosmopolitan perspective, produced within two communities of exiled English subjects, separated in time by half a century, influenced fiction writers such as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Anthony Munday, Sir John Harington, John Milton, and Aphra Behn. Ultimately, he shows that early modern cosmopolitans critiqued the emerging discourse of English nationhood from a traditional religious and political perspective, even as their writings eventually gave rise to later secular Enlightenment forms of cosmopolitanism.
Eds. Barbara Fuchs and Emily Weissbourd.
Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires. Bringing together studies of English, Spanish, Italian, and Ottoman literature and cultural artifacts, the volume moves from the broadest issues of representation in the Mediterranean to a case study – early modern England – where the “Mediterranean turn” has radically changed the field.
The essays in this wide-ranging literary and cultural study examine the rhetoric which surrounds imperial competition in this era, ranging from poems commemorating the battle of Lepanto to elaborately adorned maps of contested frontiers. They will be of interest to scholars in fields such as history, comparative literary studies, and religious studies.
Ed. Arthur Kinney.
Forty original essays written by an international team of world-renowned scholars and new scholarly voices
Comprehensive coverage of the key issues of Shakespeare Studies, including texts, performances, the cultural context out of which his writing emerged, and the current state of scholarship
Fresh and stimulating readings of Shakespeare's work
An indispensible volume for anyone studying Shakespeare, from newcomers to advanced scholars
Situated within the Oxford Handbooks to Literature series, the group of Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespearean specialists. Each of these volumes is edited by one or more internationally distinguished Shakespeareans; together, they comprehensively survey the entire field.
An essential resource for the study of Shakespeare, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare is edited by esteemed scholar Arthur Kinney and contains forty specially written essays. It provides fresh and imaginative readings of his plays and poems, reflects on the current state of Shakespeare Studies, and suggests the likely future directions it will take. The Handbook is divided into five sections: 'Texts' explores how Shakespeare wrote, who he collaborated with, the ways in which his works were transmitted, and the reactions of his early readers; 'Conditions' examines the economic, social, artistic, and linguistic forces at play on Shakespeare; 'Works' discusses the various stages of his career; 'Performances' is concerned with issues such as the reception of his plays, the theatre business, and film adaptations; and 'Current Speculations' includes essays on topics ranging from the role of philosophical thought and the influence of classical sources to the relevance of empire, technology, religion, and law. By covering the range of Shakespeare's work in his time and ours, this myriad-minded book deepens and enriches our understanding of the great poet and unparalleled playwright's accomplishments.
Readership: Students and scholars of Shakespeare