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Shakespeare, Spenser and the Matter of Britain.(Book review)
Shakespeare, Spenser and the Matter of Britain, by Andrew Hadfield. Basing-stoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. viii + 220. Cloth $65.00.
Shakespeare, Spenser and the Matter of Britain insists that English Renaissance literature must be read within the context of the changing relationships between England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland as the four nations of the British Isles were brought together under one Crown. Asserting that "it is hard to resist the notion of Britain and the British context ... because the notion of Britain loomed so large in the horizons and imaginations of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers" (4), Andrew Hadfield's book ...
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