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James Maley, George Watters, Donald Renton and Archibald Williams
were members of Machine Gun Company No. 2 of the XV International
Brigade. This is the first book to focus on a small group of men
from different starting-points, ended up in the same battleground
at Jarama, and then in the same prisons after capture by Franco’s
forces. Their remarkable story is told both in their own words and
in the recollections of their sons and daughters, through a prison
notebook, newspaper reports, stills cut from newsreels, interviews,
anecdotes and memories, with a foreword by Daniel Gray. Our Fathers
Fought Franco is a collective biography that promises to add
significantly to the understanding of the motives of those who
‘went because their open eyes could see no other way’.
On 25 May 1967 Celtic beat Inter Milan 2–1 to become the first
British team to win the European Cup. Fifty years on, The Lions of
Lisbon relives the jubilation from the fans’ point of view.
Is Shakespeare English, British, neither or both? Addressing from
various angles the relation of the figure of the national
poet/dramatist to constructions of England and Englishness this
collection of essays probes the complex issues raised by this
question, first through explorations of his plays, principally
though not exclusively the histories (Part One), then through
discussion of a range of subsequent appropriations and
reorientations of Shakespeare and 'his' England (Part Two). If
Shakespeare has been taken to stand for Britain as well as England,
as if the two were interchangeable, this double identity has come
under increasing strain with the break-up - or shake-up - of
Britain through devolution and the end of Empire. Essays in Part
One examine how the fissure between English and British identities
is probed in Shakespeare's own work, which straddles a vital
juncture when an England newly independent from Rome was
negotiating its place as part of an emerging British state and
empire. Essays in Part Two then explore the vexed relations of
'Shakespeare' to constructions of authorial identity as well as
national, class, gender and ethnic identities. At this crucial
historical moment, between the restless interrogations of the
tercentenary celebrations of the Union of Scotland and England in
2007 and the quatercentenary celebrations of the death of the bard
in 2016, amid an increasing clamour for a separate English
parliament, when the end of Britain is being foretold and when
flags and feelings are running high, this collection has a
topicality that makes it of interest not only to students and
scholars of Shakespeare studies and Renaissance literature, but to
readers inside and outside the academy interested in the drama of
national identities in a time of transition.
Shakespeare and Wales offers a 'Welsh correction' to a
long-standing deficiency. It explores the place of Wales in
Shakespeare's drama and in Shakespeare criticism, covering ground
from the absorption of Wales into the Tudor state in 1536 to
Shakespeare on the Welsh stage in the twenty-first century.
Shakespeare's major Welsh characters, Fluellen and Glendower,
feature prominently, but the Welsh dimension of the histories as a
whole, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Cymbeline also come in for
examination. The volume also explores the place of Welsh-identified
contemporaries of Shakespeare such as Thomas Churchyard and John
Dee, and English writers with pronounced Welsh interests such as
Spenser, Drayton and Dekker. This volume brings together experts in
the field from both sides of the Atlantic, including leading
practitioners of British Studies, in order to establish a detailed
historical context that illustrates the range and richness of
Shakespeare's Welsh sources and resources, and confirms the degree
to which Shakespeare continues to impact upon Welsh culture and
identity even as the process of devolution in Wales serves to shake
the foundations of Shakespeare's status as an unproblematic English
or British dramatist.
Drawing together some of the leading academics in the field of
Shakespeare studies, this volume examines the commonalities and
differences in addressing a notionally 'Celtic' Shakespeare. Celtic
contexts have been established for many of Shakespeare's plays, and
there has been interest too in the ways in which Irish, Scottish
and Welsh critics, editors and translators have reimagined
Shakespeare, claiming, connecting with and correcting him. This
collection fills a major gap in literary criticism by bringing
together the best scholarship on the individual nations of Ireland,
Scotland and Wales in a way that emphasizes cultural crossovers and
crucibles of conflict. The volume is divided into three
chronologically ordered sections: Tudor Reflections, Stuart
Revisions and Celtic Afterlives. This division of essays directs
attention to Shakespeare's transformed treatment of national
identity in plays written respectively in the reigns of Elizabeth
and James, but also takes account of later regional receptions and
the cultural impact of the playwright's dramatic works. The first
two sections contain fresh readings of a number of the individual
plays, and pay particular attention to the ways in which
Shakespeare attends to contemporary understandings of national
identity in the light of recent history. Juxtaposing this material
with subsequent critical receptions of Shakespeare's works, from
Milton to Shaw, this volume addresses a significant critical lacuna
in Shakespearean criticism. Rather than reading these plays from a
solitary national perspective, the essays in this volume cohere in
a wide-ranging treatment of Shakespeare's direct and oblique
references to the archipelago, and the problematic issue of
national identity.
Drawing together some of the leading academics in the field of
Shakespeare studies, this volume examines the commonalities and
differences in addressing a notionally 'Celtic' Shakespeare. Celtic
contexts have been established for many of Shakespeare's plays, and
there has been interest too in the ways in which Irish, Scottish
and Welsh critics, editors and translators have reimagined
Shakespeare, claiming, connecting with and correcting him. This
collection fills a major gap in literary criticism by bringing
together the best scholarship on the individual nations of Ireland,
Scotland and Wales in a way that emphasizes cultural crossovers and
crucibles of conflict. The volume is divided into three
chronologically ordered sections: Tudor Reflections, Stuart
Revisions and Celtic Afterlives. This division of essays directs
attention to Shakespeare's transformed treatment of national
identity in plays written respectively in the reigns of Elizabeth
and James, but also takes account of later regional receptions and
the cultural impact of the playwright's dramatic works. The first
two sections contain fresh readings of a number of the individual
plays, and pay particular attention to the ways in which
Shakespeare attends to contemporary understandings of national
identity in the light of recent history. Juxtaposing this material
with subsequent critical receptions of Shakespeare's works, from
Milton to Shaw, this volume addresses a significant critical lacuna
in Shakespearean criticism. Rather than reading these plays from a
solitary national perspective, the essays in this volume cohere in
a wide-ranging treatment of Shakespeare's direct and oblique
references to the archipelago, and the problematic issue of
national identity.
Is Shakespeare English, British, neither or both? Addressing from
various angles the relation of the figure of the national
poet/dramatist to constructions of England and Englishness this
collection of essays probes the complex issues raised by this
question, first through explorations of his plays, principally
though not exclusively the histories (Part One), then through
discussion of a range of subsequent appropriations and
reorientations of Shakespeare and 'his' England (Part Two). If
Shakespeare has been taken to stand for Britain as well as England,
as if the two were interchangeable, this double identity has come
under increasing strain with the break-up - or shake-up - of
Britain through devolution and the end of Empire. Essays in Part
One examine how the fissure between English and British identities
is probed in Shakespeare's own work, which straddles a vital
juncture when an England newly independent from Rome was
negotiating its place as part of an emerging British state and
empire. Essays in Part Two then explore the vexed relations of
'Shakespeare' to constructions of authorial identity as well as
national, class, gender and ethnic identities. At this crucial
historical moment, between the restless interrogations of the
tercentenary celebrations of the Union of Scotland and England in
2007 and the quatercentenary celebrations of the death of the bard
in 2016, amid an increasing clamour for a separate English
parliament, when the end of Britain is being foretold and when
flags and feelings are running high, this collection has a
topicality that makes it of interest not only to students and
scholars of Shakespeare studies and Renaissance literature, but to
readers inside and outside the academy interested in the drama of
national identities in a time of transition.
Shakespeare and Wales offers a 'Welsh correction' to a
long-standing deficiency. It explores the place of Wales in
Shakespeare's drama and in Shakespeare criticism, covering ground
from the absorption of Wales into the Tudor state in 1536 to
Shakespeare on the Welsh stage in the twenty-first century.
Shakespeare's major Welsh characters, Fluellen and Glendower,
feature prominently, but the Welsh dimension of the histories as a
whole, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Cymbeline also come in for
examination. The volume also explores the place of Welsh-identified
contemporaries of Shakespeare such as Thomas Churchyard and John
Dee, and English writers with pronounced Welsh interests such as
Spenser, Drayton and Dekker. This volume brings together experts in
the field from both sides of the Atlantic, including leading
practitioners of British Studies, in order to establish a detailed
historical context that illustrates the range and richness of
Shakespeare's Welsh sources and resources, and confirms the degree
to which Shakespeare continues to impact upon Welsh culture and
identity even as the process of devolution in Wales serves to shake
the foundations of Shakespeare's status as an unproblematic English
or British dramatist.
Post-colonial theory is a relatively new area in critical
contemporary studies, having its foundations more Postcolonial
Criticism brings together some of the most important critical
writings in the field, and aims to present a clear overview of, and
introduction to, one of the most exciting and rapidly developing
areas of contemporary literary criticism. It charts the development
of the field both historically and conceptually, from its
beginnings in the early post-war period to the present day. The
first phase of postcolonial criticism is recorded here in the
pioneering work of thinkers like Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, Edward
Said, and Gayatri Spivak. More recently, a new generation of
academics have provided fresh assessments of the interaction of
class, race and gender in cultural production, and this generation
is represented in the work of Aijaz Ahmad, bell hooks, Homi Bhabha,
Abdul JanMohamed and David Lloyd. Topics covered include negritude,
national culture, orientalism, subalternity, ambivalence,
hybridity, white settler societies, gender and colonialism,
culturalism, commonwealth literature, and minority discourse. The
collection includes an extensive general introduction which clearly
sets out the key stages, figures and debates in the field. The
editors point to the variety, even conflict, within the field, but
also stress connections and parallels between the various figures
and debates which they identify as central to an understanding of
it. The introduction is followed by a series of ten essays which
have been carefully chosen to reflect both the diversity and
continuity of postcolonial criticism. Each essay is supported by a
short introduction which places it in context with the rest of the
author's work, and identifies how its salient arguments contribute
to the field as a whole. This is a field which covers many
disciplines including literary theory, cultural studies,
philosophy, geography, economics, history and politics. It is
designed to fit into the current modular arrangement of courses,
and is therefore suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate
courses which address postcolonial issues and the 'new' literatures
in English.
This book, original in emphasis, daring in execution, maps out the
shaping power of English Renaissance literature in creating and
contesting national and colonial identities through the work of
major canonical authors including Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton.
Informed throughout by the burgeoning fields of the new British
history and postcolonial criticism, this volume marks a dramatic
shift in studies of the early modern period, from Irish to British
concerns, thus accounting for the interplay of union, plantation,
and conquest.
This book maps out the shaping power of English Renaissance literature in creating and contesting national and colonial identities through the work of major authors including Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton. Informed throughout by the burgeoning fields of the new British history and postcolonial criticism, this volume marks a dramatic shift in studies of the early modern period, from Irish to British concerns, thus accounting for the interplay of union, plantation, and conquest.
Post-colonial theory is a relatively new area in critical
contemporary studies, having its foundations more Postcolonial
Criticism brings together some of the most important critical
writings in the field, and aims to present a clear overview of, and
introduction to, one of the most exciting and rapidly developing
areas of contemporary literary criticism. It charts the development
of the field both historically and conceptually, from its
beginnings in the early post-war period to the present day. The
first phase of postcolonial criticism is recorded here in the
pioneering work of thinkers like Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, Edward
Said, and Gayatri Spivak. More recently, a new generation of
academics have provided fresh assessments of the interaction of
class, race and gender in cultural production, and this generation
is represented in the work of Aijaz Ahmad, bell hooks, Homi Bhabha,
Abdul JanMohamed and David Lloyd. Topics covered include negritude,
national culture, orientalism, subalternity, ambivalence,
hybridity, white settler societies, gender and colonialism,
culturalism, commonwealth literature, and minority discourse. The
collection includes an extensive general introduction which clearly
sets out the key stages, figures and debates in the field. The
editors point to the variety, even conflict, within the field, but
also stress connections and parallels between the various figures
and debates which they identify as central to an understanding of
it. The introduction is followed by a series of ten essays which
have been carefully chosen to reflect both the diversity and
continuity of postcolonial criticism. Each essay is supported by a
short introduction which places it in context with the rest of the
author's work, and identifies how its salient arguments contribute
to the field as a whole. This is a field which covers many
disciplines including literary theory, cultural studies,
philosophy, geography, economics, history and politics. It is
designed to fit into the current modular arrangement of courses,
and is therefore suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate
courses which address postcolonial issues and the 'new' literatures
in English.
Shakespeare and Scotland is a timely collection of new essays in
which leading scholars on both sides of the Atlantic address a
neglected national context for an exemplary body of dramatic work
too often viewed within a narrow English milieu or against a broad
British backdrop. These essays explore, from a variety of critical
perspectives, the playwright's place in Scotland and the place of
Scotland in his work. From critical reception to dramatic and
cinematic adaptation, the contributors engage with the complexity
of Shakespeare's Scotland and Scotland's Shakespeare. The influence
of Scotland on Shakespeare's writing, and later on his reception,
is set alongside the dramatic effects that Shakespeare's work had
on the development of Scottish literature, from the Globe to
globalisation, and from Captain Jamy and King James to radical
productions at the Citizens' Theatre in Glasgow. -- .
Though British history and identity in the early modern period are intensively researched areas, the role of literature in the construction of "Britishness" has not been thoroughly studied. In this volume, leading Renaissance literary critics review a broad range of texts from the period, including plays of Shakespeare, in view of the new British history. This collection opens up a new kind of literary history with immediate relevance to contemporary discussions of "Britishness."
Though British history and identity in the early modern period are
intensively researched areas, the role of literature in the
construction of 'Britishness' is under-examined. English history of
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries often overlooks the
contribution of Ireland, Scotland and Wales to the formation of the
British state. Historians describe 'Britain' as a multiple kingdom,
with a long history of conflict. In this 2002 volume, a team of
leading Renaissance literary critics read a broad range of texts
from the period, including plays of Shakespeare, in light of
British history. Prominent historians respond to the issues raised
by the volume. This collection opened up a different kind of
literary history and has pressing relevance for discussions of
'Britishness'.
In this volume of essays a group of historians and literary critics
debate the representation of early modern Ireland by English
Renaissance authors. The contributions deal both with modes of
representation - aesthetic, geographic, literary, political, visual
- and with the biographies of representative individuals. Thus
historical commentary and textual analysis go hand-in-hand with
biography and chronology. The essays are interdisciplinary,
combining traditional methods of literary and historical enquiry
with a range of new theoretical approaches to texts and their
authors. There are discussions of the work of major writers
including John Bale, Gabriel Harvey, Barnaby Googe, Edmund Spenser,
John Milton and Geoffrey Keating in the context of Irish politics
from the Reformation to the Restoration.
This book explores the ways in which intellectual and cultural
publics from the early modern period to the postmodern present have
actively constructed their cultural identities within the social
processes of modernity. It brings together some of the most
compelling recent writing on the public sphere by scholars in the
fields of literary history, cultural studies and social theory from
both sides of the Atlantic. Taken together, the essays in this
collection offer a major re-examination of recent scholarship on
the theory of the public sphere as developed by Jurgen Habermas.
They also stand as a collective effort both to interrogate and to
extend this influential model by exploring modern forms of
intellectual and cultural activity in all their rich diversity and
ideological complexity. Contributions range from the divided
inheritance of Shakespeare publishing history to the new forms of
mass-mediated cultural experience in contemporary Britain; from
attempts at cultural regulation in the literary public sphere of
the Romantic period to the postmodern political conflict played out
in the American public sphere of the 1990s; and from varieties of
religious dissent to modes of postcolonial criticism. The book
furthers the dialogue between academic methodologies, fields and
periods, and presents readers with a contested narrative of the key
cultural and intellectual practices that have made up our modern
world.
While a number of published works approach the shared concerns of
Ireland and Scotland, no major volume has offered a sustained and
up-to-date analysis of the cultural connections between the two,
despite the fact that these border crossings continue to be
politically suggestive. The current collection addresses this area
of comparative critical neglect, focusing on writers, from Charles
Robert Maturin to Liam McIlvanney, whose work offers insights into
debates about identity and politics in these two neighbour nations,
too often overwhelmed by connections with their larger neighbour,
England. The essays in this collection are distinct yet connected,
and are designed to come together like the intricate cross-bars and
precise patterning of the plaid to capture the complexity of the
Celtic connections they address. They move from pre-history to
postmodernism, from Gothic to Gaelic and from Macbeth to Marxism,
incorporating gender and genre, and providing a detailed survey of
responses to the Irish-Scottish paradigm.
This Companion brings together an international 'Brodie set' of
critics to trace the history, impact, reception and major themes of
Spark's work, from her early poetry to her last novel. It
encompasses the range of Spark's output, pursuing contextual lines
of approach including biography, geography, gender, identity,
nation and religion, and considering her legacy and continuing
influence in the twenty-first century. Spark emerges here as a
serious thinker on issues as diverse as the Welfare State,
secularisation, decolonisation, and anti-psychiatry, and a writer
whose work may be placed alongside Proust, Joyce, Nabokov, and
Lessing. The critics collected here are mindful of how, although
overwhelmingly known as a novelist, by the time of her first novel,
The Comforters, in 1957, Spark already had a significant profile
through poetry, biographical criticism, and literary journalism, as
chair of the Poetry Society and editor of the Poetry Review, and as
author or co-author of a number of scholarly studies of writers
including Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, the Brontes, Cardinal Newman,
and John Masefield. Within a relatively modest space this Companion
touches on the whole range of Spark's work and, in introducing the
oeuvre thematically for those looking to explore this elegant and
challenging author further, also sets the agenda for future Spark
studies. Key Features * A collection of original, specially
commissioned chapters by leading experts in the field * Covers the
whole spectrum of Spark's work * Addresses the key issues and
themes in Spark's work without losing sight of the questions of
form and content * Provides original insights into the contexts of
Spark's work as viewed through literary theory
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