English renaissance drama and the specter of spain : ethnopoetics and empire /

Eric J. Griffin discovers the rhetorical strategies through which the Hispanophobic perspectives now known as the Black Legend of Spanish Cruelty were written into English cultural memory.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Griffin, Eric J.
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2009]
©2009
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812202106
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Summary: Eric J. Griffin discovers the rhetorical strategies through which the Hispanophobic perspectives now known as the Black Legend of Spanish Cruelty were written into English cultural memory.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: 12 illus.
ISBN: 9780812202106
Index Number: PR658
CLC: I561.073
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Illustrations --
Introduction. The Specter of Spain --
Chapter one. From Ethos to Ethnos --
Chapter two. A Long and Lively Antithesis --
Chapter three. Thomas Kyd s Tragedy of "the Spains" --
Chapter four. Marlowe Among the Machevills --
Chapter five. Shakespeare s Comical History --
Chapter six. Othello s Spanish Spirits --
Afterword. A Natural Enemy --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index --
Acknowledgments.