Images of Englishmen and Foreigners in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: A Study of Stage Characters and National Identity in English Renaissance Drama, 1558-1642The connection between Renaissance ideas about the character of individual nations and the presentation of stage characters of various nationalities in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries is examined in this volume. |
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... Italians , and the Lombards in particular , were already being reproached for their financial dealings as well as ... Italian sentiments contained the germs of the character of Mercatore in Robert Wilson's The Three Ladies of London ...
... Italians , and the Lombards in particular , were already being reproached for their financial dealings as well as ... Italian sentiments contained the germs of the character of Mercatore in Robert Wilson's The Three Ladies of London ...
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... Italian for great wit and policie : the Scot for boldness and the Boeme for stubbornness . " 24 The fact that such definitions occupied a place in prescriptive catalogues signals a phenomenon that has significant consequences for the ...
... Italian for great wit and policie : the Scot for boldness and the Boeme for stubbornness . " 24 The fact that such definitions occupied a place in prescriptive catalogues signals a phenomenon that has significant consequences for the ...
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... Italians and Spaniards go beyond all Englishmen in subtiltie and warinesse , for I have found divers of our Nation , whom I beleeve , neyther Italian , nor Spanyard could over - reach , in what negotiation soever.31 One concern of the ...
... Italians and Spaniards go beyond all Englishmen in subtiltie and warinesse , for I have found divers of our Nation , whom I beleeve , neyther Italian , nor Spanyard could over - reach , in what negotiation soever.31 One concern of the ...
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... Italian dignitary who threatens to invade England with a combined army consisting of " the Kyng of Scottes ... the French kyng ... Kyng Alphonse with the / Span- yardes ... Esterlynges , Danes , and Norwayes " ( lines 1632-38 ) ...
... Italian dignitary who threatens to invade England with a combined army consisting of " the Kyng of Scottes ... the French kyng ... Kyng Alphonse with the / Span- yardes ... Esterlynges , Danes , and Norwayes " ( lines 1632-38 ) ...
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... Italian machiavel . His shuttle diplomacy is not an attempt at creative mediation but merely an opportunistic endeavor to exploit the political crisis and to solidify the power of Rome . Precisely by eschewing the use of references to ...
... Italian machiavel . His shuttle diplomacy is not an attempt at creative mediation but merely an opportunistic endeavor to exploit the political crisis and to solidify the power of Rome . Precisely by eschewing the use of references to ...
Contents
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Englishmen Abroad 15581603 | 76 |
Foreigners in England 16031625 | 108 |
Englishmen Abroad 16031625 | 144 |
Foreigners in England 16251642 | 185 |
Englishmen Abroad 16251642 | 216 |
Conclusion | 237 |
Notes | 245 |
Bibliography | 289 |
Index | 319 |
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Page 80 - But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance.
Page 32 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 94 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot (the terror of the French) to thinke that after he had lyne two hundred yeares in his Tombe, hee should triumphe againe on the Stage, and have his bones newe embalmed with the teares of ten thousand spectators at least (at severall times), who, in the Tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding.
Page 290 - Crudities. Hastily gobled up in five Moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia, commonly called the Grisons country, Helvetia, alias Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands ; Newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the County of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the travelling Members of this Kingdome &c.
Page 51 - Why you must needs be strangers : would you be pleased To find a nation of such barbarous temper That breaking out in hideous violence Would not afford you an abode on earth, Whet their detested knives against your throats, Spurn you like dogs, and like as if that God 1 Dyco supplied the blank with
Page 296 - The Ball / A / Comedy, / As it was presented by her / Majesties Servants, at the private / House in Drury Lane.
Page 136 - No country's mirth is better than our own: No clime breeds better matter for your whore, Bawd, squire, impostor, many persons more, Whose manners, now call'd humours, feed the stage; And which have still been subject for the rage Or spleen of comic writers.
Page 163 - Besides, I have a lady of my own In merry England, for whose virtuous sake I took these arms ; and Susan is her name, A cobbler's maid in Milk Street; whom I vow Ne'er to forsake whilst life and Pestle last.
Page 153 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...