Ireland is increasingly recognized as a crucial element in early
modern British literary and political history. Christopher
Highley's book explores the most serious crisis the Elizabethan
regime faced: its attempts to subdue and colonize the native Irish.
Through a range of literary representations from Shakespeare and
Spenser, and contemporaries like John Hooker, John Derricke, George
Peele and Thomas Churchyard he shows how these writers produced a
complex discourse about Ireland that cannot be reduced to a simple
ethnic opposition. This book challenges traditional views about the
impact of Spenser's experience in Ireland on his cultural identity,
while also arguing that the interaction between English and Ireland
is a powerful and provocative subtext in the work of Shakespeare
and his fellow dramatists. Highley argues that the confrontation
between an English imperial presence and a Gaelic 'other' was a
profound factor in the definition of an English poetic self.
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