1. Introduction: aliens and the English in London; 2. Discovering the alien in Elizabethan moral drama; 3. Accommodating the alien in mid-Elizabethan London plays; 4. Incorporating the alien in Shakespeare's second tetralogy; 5. Being the alien in late Elizabethan London plays; Postscript.
Examines a variety of plays between 1550–1600 to demonstrate how they asserted ideas and ideals of 'Englishness' for audiences.
'Looking at neglected plays but raising issues that bear on our
reading of Marlowe and Shakespeare too, this timely and topical
book explores the representation of aliens and strangers in
sixteenth-century drama and offers an elegant and subtle account of
the developing notions of Englishness they chart.' Lisa Hopkins,
Sheffield Hallam University
'… [Kermode's] book provides a coherent and insightful framework
for reading the tensions and conflicts represented in a wide range
of sixteenth-century English drama.' Mary Floyd-Wilson, Renaissance
Quarterly
'… Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan Drama, packs a scant 154
pages of text, 28 pages of informative end notes, and a generous 13
page bibliography with brilliant insights into early stirrings of
the British Empire as reflected in two continuous phases of
Elizabethan plays and their London audiences during the second half
of the sixteenth century.' Frederick S. Lapisardi, PhD, Professor
Emeritus, California University of Pennsylvania
'Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan Drama offers an engaging
journey into mid- to late-sixteenth century drama. … I recommend
[it] to those who teach early modern English theatre as well as
those more interested generally in issues of identity as reflected
in drama.' William F. Hodapp, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance
Teaching
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