British Identities and English Renaissance Literature

Table of Contents

Introduction David Baker and Willy Maley
Part I: Opening the Field:
1. British history and 'the British history': the same old story? Philip Schwyzer
2. An uncertain union David Baker and Willy Maley
3. Revising criticism: Ireland and the British model Andrew Murphy
Part II. Contested Peripheries:
4. 'The lost British lamb': English Catholic exiles and the problem of Britain Christopher Highley
5. 'Making history': Holinshed's Irish chronicles, 1577 and 1587 Richard A. McCabe
Part III. British Shakespeare:
6. Henry IV: metatheatrical Britain Matthew Greenfield
7. Uncertain unions: Welsh leeks in Henry V Patricia Parker
8. Delving to the root: Cymbeline, Scotland, and the English race Mary Floyd-Wilson
Part IV. Union Questions:
9. Reinventing the matter of Britain: undermining the state in Jacobean masques Jayne Elisabeth Archer and Philippa Berry
10. Mapping British identities: Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine Christopher Ivic
Part V. Britain's Brave New World:
11. Bruited abroad: John White and Thomas Harriot's Colonial Representations of Ancient Britain Andrew Hadfield
12. The Commonwealth of the Word: New England, Old England, and the Praying Indians Linda Gregerson
Part VI. Restoring Britain:
13. Orrery's Ireland and the British problem, 1641–1679 John Kerrigan
14. Jacobite literature and national Identities Murray Pittock
Part VII:
15. Historians respond: literature and the new British and Irish histories Jane Ohlmeyer
16. Text, time, and the pursuit of 'British Identities' Derek Hirst.

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