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English Renaissance Drama and the Specter of Spain : Ethnopoetics and Empire.

Griffin, Eric J.

English Renaissance Drama and the Specter of Spain : Ethnopoetics and Empire. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (316 pages)

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: The Specter of Spain -- ONE: From Ethos to Ethnos -- TWO: A Long and Lively Antithesis -- THREE: Thomas Kyd's Tragedy of "the Spains -- FOUR: Marlowe Among the Machevills -- FIVE: Shakespeare's Comical History -- SIX: Othello's Spanish Spirits: Or, Un-sainting James -- Afterword: A Natural Enemy -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

Eric J. Griffin discovers the rhetorical strategies through which the Hispanophobic perspectives now known as the Black Legend of Spanish Cruelty were written into English cultural memory.

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Shakespeare, William,-1564-1616-Knowledge-Spain.
English drama-Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-History and criticism.
English drama-17th century-History and criticism.
National characteristics, Spanish, in literature.
Public opinion-Great Britain-History.
Spain-In literature.
Spain-Foreign public opinion, British-History.
Great Britain-Relations-Spain.
Spain-Relations-Great Britain.


Electronic books.

PR658.P65 -- G75 2009eb

822/.30935846

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