University Press of America
Pages: 196
Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-0-7618-1735-2 • Hardback • November 2000 • $91.00 • (£70.00)
Joan Fitzpatrick is a lecturer in Renaissance Literature at University College Northampton in England.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Writing of Ireland: The "Supplication" and A View of the Present State of Ireland
Chapter 4 Religious Conflict: Truth, Error, and Duplicity
Chapter 5 Acrasia, Ruddymane, and the Red Hand of Ulster
Chapter 6 Gendered Histories: Nicolas Sander, Shakespeare, and the Post-Reformation Propaganda War
Chapter 7 Savage Landscapes: Ireland and the Irish Rebels
Chapter 8 The Plight of Munera: Violence against the Sexual and Religious Other
Chapter 9 Pastoral Idylls and Lawless Rebels
Chapter 10 Mutabilitie and Degeneration in The Faerie Queene
Chapter 11 Notes
Chapter 12 Bibliography
Chapter 13 Index
Fitzpatrick makes a number of good points in the course of her study. She writes well on religion and has an eye for allegorical detail bases on historical events…
— Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex; Mlr