Shakespeare, Spenser and the Matter of Britain

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Shakespeare, Spenser and the Matter of Britain is written by A. Hadfield and published by Palgrave Macmillan. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0333993136 (ISBN 10) and 9780333993132 (ISBN 13).

Shakespeare, Spencer and the Matter of Britain examines the work of two of the most important English Renaissance authors in terms of the cultural, social and political contexts of early modern Britain. Andrew Hadfield demonstrates that the poetry of Edmund Spenser and the plays of William Shakespeare demand to be read in terms of an expanding Elizabethan and Jacobean culture in which a dominant English identity had to come to terms with the Irish, Scots and Welsh who were now also subjects of the crown.