Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan drama
Aliens in literature English drama National characteristics, English, in literature e-böcker
Cambridge University Press
2009
EISBN 9780511517884
Introduction : aliens and the English in London.
Discovering the alien in Elizabethan moral drama.
Accommodating the alien in mid-Elizabethan London plays.
Incorporating the alien in Shakespeare's second tetralogy.
Being the alien in late-Elizabethan London plays.
Postscript : early modern and post-modern alien excursions.
"Covering a wide variety of dramatic texts and performances from 1550 to 1600, including Shakespeare's second tetralogy, this book explores moral, historical, and comic plays as contributions to Elizabethan debates on Anglo-foreign relations in England. Aliens and Englishness reads a body of plays that represents Englishness as a state of ideological, invented superiority - paradoxically stable in its constant changeability, and brought into being by incorporating and eventually even celebrating, rather than rejecting, the alien."--Jacket.
Discovering the alien in Elizabethan moral drama.
Accommodating the alien in mid-Elizabethan London plays.
Incorporating the alien in Shakespeare's second tetralogy.
Being the alien in late-Elizabethan London plays.
Postscript : early modern and post-modern alien excursions.
"Covering a wide variety of dramatic texts and performances from 1550 to 1600, including Shakespeare's second tetralogy, this book explores moral, historical, and comic plays as contributions to Elizabethan debates on Anglo-foreign relations in England. Aliens and Englishness reads a body of plays that represents Englishness as a state of ideological, invented superiority - paradoxically stable in its constant changeability, and brought into being by incorporating and eventually even celebrating, rather than rejecting, the alien."--Jacket.
