Dissent and authority in early modern Ireland the English problem from Bale to Shakespeare / Jane Yeang Chui Wong.
| Author/creator | Wong, Jane Yeang Chui |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Governing Elizabethan Ireland |
| Series | Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 52 |
| Contents | King Johan (1538), King John, and the Henrician reformation -- Englishness and loyalty in Gerald of Wales' Expugnatio Hibernica (1189) and Holinshed's Irish chronicle -- Portrait of a lord deputy : Sir Henry Sidney in Ireland and on the page -- Negotiating violence and equity in Edmund Spenser's "Legend of justice" (1596) -- "This present quality of war" : truth, trust and truce in 2 Henry IV (1597-98). |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Alberta, 2013, titled Governing Elizabethan Ireland : representations of colonial administration in Holinshed, Spenser, and Shakespeare. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version : Wong, Jane Yeang Chui. Dissent and authority in early modern Ireland New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. 9780367257750 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019980849 |
| ISBN | 9780415015356 (mobi) |
| ISBN | 9780429289781 (ebk) |
| ISBN | 9780415015219 (pdf) |
| ISBN | (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780415015493 (epub) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |