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Dissent and Authority in Early Modern Ireland - The English Problem from Bale to Shakespeare (Paperback)
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Dissent and Authority in Early Modern Ireland - The English Problem from Bale to Shakespeare (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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Dissent and Authority in Early Modern Ireland: The English Problem
from Bale to Shakespeare examines the problems that beset the Tudor
administration of Ireland through a range of selected 16th century
English narratives. This book is primarily concerned with the
period between 1541 and 1603. This bracket provides a framework
that charts early modern Irish history from the constitutional
change of the island from lordship to kingdom to the end of the
conquest in 1603. The mounting impetus to bring Ireland to a
"complete" conquest during these years has, quite naturally, led
critics to associate England's reform strategies with Irish
Otherness. The preoccupation with this discourse of difference is
also perceived as the "Irish Problem," a blanket term broadly used
to describe just about every aspect of Irishness incompatible with
the English imperialist ideologies. The term stresses everything
that is "wrong" with the Irish nation-Ireland was a problem to be
resolved. This book takes a different approach towards the "Irish
Problem." Instead of rehashing the English government's complaints
of the recalcitrant Irish and the long struggle to impose royal
authority in Ireland, I posit that the "Irish Problem" was very
much shaped and developed by a larger "English Problem," namely
English dissent within the English government. The discussions in
this book focuse on the ways in which English writers articulated
their knowledge and anxieties of the "English Problem" in
sixteenth-century literary and historical narratives. This book
reappraises the limitations of the "Irish Problem," and argues that
the crown's failure to control dissent within its own ranks was as
detrimental to the conquest as the "Irish Problem," if not more so,
and finally, it attempts to demonstrate how dissent translate into
governance and conquest in early modern Ireland.
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