Malcolm Smuts
Biographic Data
| ID | 378143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malcolm Smuts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malcolm |
| FAMILY NAME | Smuts |
| SIGNATURE | SMUTS M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
English Vernacular Historical Writing and Holinshed’s
This chapter examines a key historical text of Shakespeare’s time (and a major source for his history plays), Raphael Holinshed’s ‘Chronicles’, published in two separate and quite distinct editions in 1577 and 1587 respectively. The chapter first situates the Chronicles within the wider context of late medieval and Tudor vernacular historical writing (in particular the chronicling tradition); it then illustrates some of the differences between th…
Shakespeare, the Irish, and Military Culture
Ireland was peripheral to Shakespeare’s thinking. The notion of the sister kingdom and the existence of its inhabitants were familiar to him, but this familiarity did not lead to curiosity. Ireland and the Irish could be portrayed as bogeymen: current anxieties in London about revolting Gaelic-Irish troops in the Netherlands, the reverses the Crown army suffered in the Nine Years’ War and the corruption that Irish service visited both upon the En…
The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare
This handbook presents a broad sampling of current historical scholarship on Shakespeare’s period that it is hoped will prove useful to scholars of his poems and plays. Rather than attempting to summarize the historical ‘background’ to Shakespeare, individual chapters explore numerous topics and methodologies at the forefront of current historical research. An initial cluster shows how political history has expanded beyond a traditional focus on …
Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England: Literature, Culture, Kinship, and Kingship
In Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England, Bruce Thomas Boehrer argues that a preoccupation with incest is built not the dominant social and cultural concerns of early modern England. Proceeding from a study of Henry III's divorce and succession legislation, through the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I, this work examines the interrelation between family politics and literary expression in and around the English royal court
The Revolution of 1688-1689
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The Revolution of 1688-1689
Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England: Literature, Culture, Kinship, and Kingship
In Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England, Bruce Thomas Boehrer argues that a preoccupation with incest is built not the dominant social and cultural concerns of early modern England. Proceeding from a study of Henry III's divorce and succession legislation, through the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I, this work examines the interrelation between family politics and literary expression in and around the English royal court
English Vernacular Historical Writing and Holinshed’s
This chapter examines a key historical text of Shakespeare’s time (and a major source for his history plays), Raphael Holinshed’s ‘Chronicles’, published in two separate and quite distinct editions in 1577 and 1587 respectively. The chapter first situates the Chronicles within the wider context of late medieval and Tudor vernacular historical writing (in particular the chronicling tradition); it then illustrates some of the differences between th…
Shakespeare, the Irish, and Military Culture
Ireland was peripheral to Shakespeare’s thinking. The notion of the sister kingdom and the existence of its inhabitants were familiar to him, but this familiarity did not lead to curiosity. Ireland and the Irish could be portrayed as bogeymen: current anxieties in London about revolting Gaelic-Irish troops in the Netherlands, the reverses the Crown army suffered in the Nine Years’ War and the corruption that Irish service visited both upon the En…
The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare
This handbook presents a broad sampling of current historical scholarship on Shakespeare’s period that it is hoped will prove useful to scholars of his poems and plays. Rather than attempting to summarize the historical ‘background’ to Shakespeare, individual chapters explore numerous topics and methodologies at the forefront of current historical research. An initial cluster shows how political history has expanded beyond a traditional focus on …
History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Classics (2 works) · Historical Studies of British Isles (2 works) · Irish (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)