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Ab Origine
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Beaumont's Masque
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Chaucer's Knight's Tale
Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale
Comicall Satyre
Disguised Ruler Play
early modern literature
Egalitarian Giant
Emblematum Liber
English iconography
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Faerie Queene
False Semblant
genre hybridity
Guarinian Tragicomedy
Henry III
hybrid forms in Renaissance studies
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Isis Temple
Italianate Englishman
Jacobean tragicomedy
Jailer's Daughter
Jailer’s Daughter
Jupiter Optimus Maximus
King JAMES
Liminal Beings
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Modern Rome
Noble Kinsmen
OED's Definition
OED’s Definition
Pastoral Tragicomedy
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Spenser's Irish Experience
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Product details
- ISBN 9781138253100
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the first book-length study explicitly to connect the postcolonial trope of hybridity to Renaissance literature, Gary Schmidt examines how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English authors, artists, explorers and statesmen exercised a concerted effort to frame questions of cultural and artistic heterogeneity. This book is unique in its exploration of how 'hybrid' literary genres emerge at particular historical moments as vehicles for negotiating other kinds of hybridity, including but not limited to cultural and political hybridity. In particular, Schmidt addresses three distinct manifestations of 'hybridity' in English literature and iconography during this period. The first category comprises literal hybrid creatures such as satyrs, centaurs, giants, and changelings; the second is cultural hybrids reflecting the mixed status of the nation; and the third is generic hybrids such as the Shakespearean 'problem play,' the volatile verse satires of Nashe, Hall and Marston, and the tragicomedies of Beaumont and Fletcher. In Renaissance Hybrids, Schmidt demonstrates 'postmodern' considerations not to be unique to our own critical milieu. Rather, they can fruitfully elucidate cultural and literary developments in the English Renaissance, forging a valuable link in the history of ideas and practices, and revealing a new dimension in the relation of early modern studies to the concerns of the present.
