01796    a2200265   4500001001100000005001700011008003900028020001800067037003600085040000700121041000800128072001500136072001500151072001300166072001400179072002100193072002300214100001900237245009100256250000600347260003200353300001000385520112000395999001501515113898118420250317100408.0250312042016GB                   eng    a9781138981188  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 49.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aDSG2thema7 aDSB2thema7 aDSG2bic7 aDSBD2bic7 aLIT0000002bisac7 a822.30932442bisac1 aAndrew M. Kirk10aMirror of ConfusionbThe Representation of French History in English Renaissance Drama  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20160303  a248 p  bHow did English dramatists portray the neighboring domain of France and its history in their plays? The study examines a selection of Shakespearean and other history plays, the French tragedies of George Chapman, Christopher Marlowe's revealing historical tragedy The  Massacre at Paris,  and several literary and nonliterary historical texts.  The result is a unique and timely contribution to our understanding of how cultural differences influenced the historical perspectives of English dramatists as well as how Renaissance plays shaped, and were shaped by, their historical material. Drawing on the insights of cultural studies, historiography, and ethnography, this study re-examines the historical representation of a neglected yet influential part of early modern Europe and the paradoxical relationship between English writers and their French subject matter. Although information about France and French history was becoming increasingly available in England at the end of the sixteenth century, for English writers France remained a distant land, its history and people misunderstood and misrepresented.  c1958d1958