:British Identities and English Renaissance Literature

Abstract

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.