Shakespeares Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age

In the first, Levin reads the penultimate scene of Henry VI, Part I, where Joan of Arc is taken to be burned at the stake, as an example of a woman unsuccessfully pleading pregnancy to avoid execution this was the closest women had to claiming benefit of clergy and shows that accusations of heresy tended to close off this avenue to deferring the sentence. Written in the early s, the play is committed to the popular nationalism of the post-Armada years, and, as Watkins shows, its militancy combines with a deep suspicion of any diplomatic activity: Throughout the book, Watkins argues against the reflexive assumption that, as G.

His is a compelling contribution to recent scholarship books by Alison Games and Timothy Hampton come to mind that treats early modern international encounters without a re- ductive focus on identity. The common perception of Oliver Cromwell—austere, devout, principled, and nobly self- sacrificing—has never fully reflected the reality.

Opinions have varied dramatically: There has been no shortage of serious scholarship about Cromwell—distinguished modern historians ranging from Wilbur Abbott to John Morrill as well as the contributors to this volume have gone over this ground. The goal of this collection of essays, writes its editor, is to present new perspectives on Oliver Cromwell and to move away from Thomas Carlyle and W.

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Sign in to use this feature. No keywords specified fix it. Parsing historical texts and this tense moment in Shakespeare's plays, Levin and Watkins suggest that "Shakespeare's England comes about by reducing an almost infinite number of [heterogeneous] groups and individuals [Italians, religious dissenters, Jews, old women, and more] to the general category of the foreign," which is seen as both "an object of wonder and opprobrium," threatening and reinforcing the unified identity of Englishness 9.

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The court scene is treated at length in chapter 4, especially pages As later chapters make clear, literature was an important force in "policing the boundaries between English and foreign identities" 13 , which in turn establishes the fiction of national coherence that lies at the core of English identity. Subsequent chapters examine how Shakespeare transformed the notion of Englishness by revealing of its coherence and distinctiveness.

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