A Cultural Studies Approach to Two Exotic Citizen Romances by Thomas HeywoodModern literary scholars have, for the most part, devoted little critical attention to that remarkable group of romance dramas featuring citizen heroes that flourished during the late Elizabethan period. Joseph Courtland's in-depth study remedies the situation by providing a fresh, cultural studies approach to this innovative hybrid of chivalric romance, viewing such adventure plays as literary works of colonial discourse within the mode of fantasy. Based principally on an approach to early modern romance as fantasy suggested by the writings of Tzvetan Todorov, Frederic Jameson, and Rosemary Jackson, the methodology employed in the analysis also incorporates the cultural materialist notion of Renaissance romance as colonial discourse. |
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... Elizabethan Ireland that by 1594 Tyrone had " ... 1,000 pikemen , 4,000 musketeers , and 1,000 cavalry with which to meet the total of 1,000 troops at the Lord Deputy's disposal outside of Munster . " 51 From 1592 onwards , English ...
... Elizabethan Ireland that by 1594 Tyrone had " ... 1,000 pikemen , 4,000 musketeers , and 1,000 cavalry with which to meet the total of 1,000 troops at the Lord Deputy's disposal outside of Munster . " 51 From 1592 onwards , English ...
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... and use other means to make the colony a revenue producer . Grenfell Morton , Elizabethan Ireland ( London : Longman , 1971 ) 18–19 . 38. David Beers Quinn , The Elizabethans and the Irish 24 A Cultural Studies Approach.
... and use other means to make the colony a revenue producer . Grenfell Morton , Elizabethan Ireland ( London : Longman , 1971 ) 18–19 . 38. David Beers Quinn , The Elizabethans and the Irish 24 A Cultural Studies Approach.
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... Elizabethan Ireland . London : Longman , 1971 . O'Connell , Laura Stevenson . " The Elizabethan Bourgeois Hero - Tale : Aspects of an Adolescent Social Consciousness . " After the Reformation : Essays in Honor of J.H. Hexter . Ed ...
... Elizabethan Ireland . London : Longman , 1971 . O'Connell , Laura Stevenson . " The Elizabethan Bourgeois Hero - Tale : Aspects of an Adolescent Social Consciousness . " After the Reformation : Essays in Honor of J.H. Hexter . Ed ...
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