LEADER 04687nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910816483103321 005 20240418023236.0 010 $a1-283-89019-4 010 $a0-8122-0210-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202106 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104561 035 $a(OCoLC)802048880 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576105 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000720515 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11431440 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000720515 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10669205 035 $a(PQKB)10483128 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18475 035 $a(DE-B1597)449069 035 $a(OCoLC)1013955489 035 $a(OCoLC)979968250 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202106 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441664 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576105 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420269 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441664 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104561 100 $a20090209d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEnglish Renaissance drama and the specter of Spain$b[electronic resource] $eethnopoetics and empire /$fEric J. Griffin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (316 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4170-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tIntroduction. The Specter of Spain -- $tChapter one. From Ethos to Ethnos -- $tChapter two. A Long and Lively Antithesis -- $tChapter three. Thomas Kyd's Tragedy of "the Spains" -- $tChapter four. Marlowe Among the Machevills -- $tChapter five. Shakespeare's Comical History -- $tChapter six. Othello's Spanish Spirits -- $tAfterword. A Natural Enemy -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aEnglish drama$yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish drama$y17th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics, Spanish, in literature 606 $aPublic opinion$zGreat Britain$xHistory 607 $aSpain$xIn literature 607 $aSpain$xForeign public opinion, British$xHistory 607 $aGreat Britain$xRelations$zSpain 607 $aSpain$xRelations$zGreat Britain 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNational characteristics, Spanish, in literature. 615 0$aPublic opinion$xHistory. 676 $a822/.30935846 700 $aGriffin$b Eric J$01622058 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816483103321 996 $aEnglish Renaissance drama and the specter of Spain$93955698 997 $aUNINA