Shakespeare, Spenser and the Matter of Britain

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: English Literature and Anglicised Britain Crossing the Borders: Ireland and the Irish Between England and America English Colonialism and National Identity in Early Modern Ireland Malcolm in the Middle: James VI and I, George Buchanan and the Divine Right of Kings 'Bruited Abroad': John White and Thomas Harriot's Colonial Representations of Ancient and Britain Translating the Reformation: John Bale's Irish Vocacyon Cicero, Tacitus and the Reform of Ireland in the 1590s From English to British Literature: John Lyly's Euphues and the 1590 The Faerie Queene Spenser and the Stuart Succession Spenser, Drayton and the Question of Britain Shakespeare's Ecumenical Britain Index