The "Shepheard's Nation": Jacobean Spenserians and Early Stuart Political Culture 1612-1625

by Michelle O'Callaghan

Overview

This is a study of a group of Jacobean Spenserian poets, William Browne, George Wither, and Christopher Brooke, and of the ways in which these writers represented themselves as a distinctive oppositional community in the years 1612 to 1625.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198186380
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/25/2000
Series:	Oxford English Monographs
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

University of Loughborough

Table of Contents

Introduction
The 'shepheard's nation': William Browne, The Shepheard's Pipe (1614) and George Wither, The Shepherd's Hunting (1615)
Tyranny, Parliament, and the 'Country': Christopher Brooke's The Ghost of Richard the Third (1614)
'Thus deare Britannia will I sing of thee': William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals
George Wither, Citizen Prophet
The 'Evill Time': Spenserian Community in the 1620s
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"The 'Shepheardes Nation' is an important contribution to our understanding of Jacobean literature and politics. Michelle O'Callaghan writes lucidly and carefully, and her book is genuinely interdisciplinary, dealing authoritatively with political history and theory and with the development of print culture, as well as with literary works."—Times Literary Supplement

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