Andrew Hadfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Hadfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Hadfield |
| SIGNATURE | HADFIELD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Kinds of Author
This chapter argues that most writers came from the large social category, ‘the middling sort’, and that writing careers were often precarious and uncertain. Some writers wrote to get secure positions (often in great houses), while others, including Nashe, Shakespeare, and Spenser, appeared to see writing as their main goal, whatever material benefits they also secured in their careers. Writers often produced a range of material, writing for the …
Oxford Freud: Autofictions and Reflections
It was indeed Nicholas Royle who said many years ago that what connected the members of the English Department at Sussex was Freud. A startling, Nick-like statement, but in a number of ways he was
Mueller, Martin, and Joseph Loewenstein, co-PIs. EarlyPrint: Curating and Exploring Early Printed English
EarlyPrint is an exciting new venture designed to
Globalism, Transculturalism, and the Corporate Empire
Class struggle in the Forsyte chronicles
John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga has had a mixed critical reception. In many ways Galsworthy has never properly recovered from the twin assaults on his work by Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence in the 1920s. Moreover, the success of his work on television, especially the 1967 series, which helped define the nature of modern costume drama, has only served to marginalise his work as high-brow literature. This essay argues that Galsworthy is a ser…
Race in Shakespeare’s Histories
This essay explores the significance of genealogy and inheritance in Shakespeare’s history plays; specifically, the idea that national and racial characteristics were passed down through the generations in the blood. The word "race" is often applied to peoples produced by the intermingling of different lineages and with different characteristics. The essay shows that such issues were important not just for royal dynasties but for the people they …
The Histories of Alexander Neville (1544-1614): A new Translation of Kett’s Rebellion and The City of Norwich; The Great Blow: Examinations and Informations relating to the Great Blow in Norwich, 1648
Not only was it one of the most interesting counties in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, Norfolk is especially well served by its publishers and historians today. These two handsomely produ
Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War
Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War. Patrick Gray. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. xii + 308 pp. £80. - Volume 73 Issue 1
Defending the Faith: John Jewel and the Elizabethan Church, ed. Angela Ranson, André A. Gazal and Sarah Bastow
It is good to have a book on John Jewel (1522–71), a major figure who helped shape the nature of the Anglican Church, but one easily forgotten. Yet, as Lucy Wooding notes, in 1609, Richard Bancroft, the incumbent archbishop of Canterbury, valued Jewel’s works highly enough to order that they be placed in every church in Elizabeth’s dominions (Foxe’s Acts and Monuments only made it into cathedral churches, but then it was a very expensive volume).…
Lying in an age of digital capitalism
Now may be a very good time to be liar. In public, lies appear to be exposed almost as a matter of course, but liars rarely seem to face any consequences; hidden from view, authors of material on m
Mardi and Spenser's wandering allegory
In this essay I want to make the case that Edmund Spenser had a crucial impact on Melville’s career, one that has been acknowledged – most significantly by Carole Moses – but never fully developed. Melville read, re-read and thought about Spenser over a number of years as the surviving copies of his work attest with their extensive markings. Like his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose mother adapted Spenser for children and who named his daughter,…
Mendacity in Early Modern Literature and Culture
A Mirror for Magistrates in Context: Literature, History and Politics in Early Modern England
Archer, Harriet, and Andrew Hadfield, eds. A Mirror for Magistrates in Context: Literature, History and Politics in Early Modern England. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Piety and Conflict in the Early Reformation), on Érudit
Secular Chains: Poetry and the Politics of Religion from Milton to Pope, by Philip Connell
Religion, as we all know, shapes the secular world. But it also shapes other forms of religion in ways that are not always—or even often—apparent. In this absorbing, albeit sometimes dense, study, Philip Connell shows how literature written in the year of Charles I’s execution to that produced long after the dawn of the Enlightenment was created in the shadow of sectarian division and conflict. In the introduction he cites the bleak description i…
Edmund Campion: A Scholarly Life, by Gerard Kilroy
A biography of the Jesuit martyr Edmund Campion (1540–81) has long been necessary. For supporters and enemies alike, Campion’s trial and the reactions to it did much to establish the nature of confessional conflict in the British Isles well into the seventeenth century. Gerard Kilroy’s life is a masterful work: always based on a careful examination of the evidence, it is thoughtfully conceived and written. The author has discovered a wealth of ne…
John Cramsie. British Travellers and the Encounter with Britain, 1450–1700
Travel writing has long been an established genre, and recovering accounts of particular encounters is not a particularly difficult task. John Cramsie, however, undertakes a greater challenge in this full and informative monograph: he sets out to discover what the Britons thought about themselves from the late Middle Ages to the start of the eighteenth century. In British Travellers and the Encounter with Britain, 1450–1700, Cramsie contends that…
Sterne amongst the philosophers
For Ian Watt, Laurence Sterne was a central figure in the literary canon as he was considered, along with Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding, to be a founding father of the novel: more specifical
A Mirror for Magistrates in Context: Literature, History and Politics in Early Modern England
This is the first essay collection on A Mirror for Magistrates, the most popular work of English literature in the age of Shakespeare. The Mirror is here analysed by major scholars, who discuss its meaning and significance, and assess the extent of its influence as a series of tragic stories showing powerful princes and governors brought low by fate and enemy action. Scholars debate the challenging and radical nature of the Mirror's politics, its…
Mirror for Magistrates in Context: Literature, History and Politics in Early Modern England
Christopher N. Warren, Literature and the law of nations, 1580–1680
Christopher N. Warren, Literature and the law of nations, 1580–1680." The Seventeenth Century, 31(1), pp. 101–102
Shakespeare and Politics in the Time of the Gunpowder Plot
Shakespeare's plays are best studied in clusters if we want to understand the political thought and preoccupations which inform their action rather than, as has been more usual practice, their generic identity. Plays written around the time of the Gunpowder Plot (1605) and the subsequent imposition of the Oath of Allegiance share common concerns regarding the swearing of oaths, honest speech, trustworthiness, and loyalty—issues that transcend dis…
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
Travel
Advances in technology had dramatically improved mapping and navigational possibilities that made travel within Europe easier, more comfortable, and more feasible. In the early seventeenth century, writers such as Fynes Moryson, Thomas Coryat, and William Lithgow began to provide accounts of their extensive travels. However, the ethnological models that were used by Europeans in the sixteenth century were hardly modern. While the discovery of the…
To Penshurst” and Sir Philip Sidney
And Touching Our Society”: Fashioning Jesuit Identity in Elizabethan England
Briton and Scythian: Tudor representations of Irish origins
It is a commonplace of recent British historiography that in the early modern period a sophisticated and sceptical concept of writing history began to develop which involved, among other things, historians becoming significantly less credulous in their use of sources. Often the crucial break with medieval ‘chronicles’ is seen to have been brought about by the triumph of the exiled Italian humanist, Polydore Vergil, over the fervently nationalisti…
Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance 1545–1625
What was the purpose of representing foreign lands for writers in the English Renaissance? This book argues that writers often used their works as vehicles to reflect on the state of contemporary English politics, particularly their own lack of representation in public institutions. Sometimes such analyses took the form of displaced allegories, whereby writers contrasted the advantages enjoyed, or disadvantages suffered, by foreign subjects with …
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
Shakespeare and republicanism: History and Cultural Materialism
This article argues that Shakespeare studies has been limited by a lack of interest in political analysis and discussion, even though many critics profess that their work is seriously concerned with political issues. The field has become dominated by identity politics and the theoretical exploration of the self, legitimate concerns for a politicized criticism. However, as a result, analysis of political institutions and political treatises has be…
Crossing the Borders: Ireland and the Irish Between England and America
Historians of early modern Ireland have often been rather too monolithic in their readings of representations of Ireland and the Irish. Many commentators now insist that Ireland has to be viewed in terms of British or European developments. Using examples from a selection of writers—Luke Gernon, Sir Henry Sidney, Sir William Herbert, John Derricke, Barnaby Rich, Sir John Davies—this article argues that Ireland was invariably represented through t…
Rethinking early‐modern colonialism: The anomalous state of Ireland
(1999). Rethinking early‐modern colonialism: the anomalous state of Ireland. Irish Studies Review: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 13-27
Briton and Scythian: Tudor representations of Irish origins
It is a commonplace of recent British historiography that in the early modern period a sophisticated and sceptical concept of writing history began to develop which involved, among other things, historians becoming significantly less credulous in their use of sources. Often the crucial break with medieval ‘chronicles’ is seen to have been brought about by the triumph of the exiled Italian humanist, Polydore Vergil, over the fervently nationalisti…
‘Hitherto she ne’re could fancy him’: Shakespeare’s ‘British’ Plays and the Exclusion of Ireland
Shakespeare was clearly aware of Ireland and referred to the kingdom and its inhabitants regularly — albeit usually briefly — in many of his earlier works. In The Comedy of Errors (c.1593), Dromio of Syracuse provides a humorous geographical description of Luce (Nell), Adriana’s kitchen maid. He suggests that her forehead is France; England, her chin; Spain, her hot breath; America, her nose; the Netherlands, her nether parts, and Ireland, ‘in he…
William Baldwin's Beware the Cat and the question of Anglo‐Irish literature
(1998). William Baldwin's Beware the Cat and the question of Anglo‐Irish literature. Irish Studies Review: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 237-243
Race in Othello: The History and Description of Africa and the Black Legend
Journal Article RACE IN OTHELLO : THE HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF AFRICA AND THE BLACK LEGEND Get access ANDREW HADFIELD ANDREW HADFIELD University of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 45, Issue 3, September 1998, Pages 336–338, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/45-3-336 Published: 01 September 1998
Crossing the Borders: Ireland and the Irish Between England and America
Historians of early modern Ireland have often been rather too monolithic in their readings of representations of Ireland and the Irish. Many commentators now insist that Ireland has to be viewed in terms of British or European developments. Using examples from a selection of writers-Luke Gernon, Sir Henry Sidney, Sir William Herbert, John Derricke, Barnaby Rich, Sir John Davies-this article argues that Ireland was invariably represented through t…
Crossing the Borders: Ireland and the Irish Between England and America
Historians of early modern Ireland have often been rather too monolithic in their readings of representations of Ireland and the Irish. Many commentators now insist that Ireland has to be viewed in terms of British or European developments. Using examples from a selection of writers—Luke Gernon, Sir Henry Sidney, Sir William Herbert, John Derricke, Barnaby Rich, Sir John Davies—this article argues that Ireland was invariably represented through t…
Rethinking early‐modern colonialism: The anomalous state of Ireland
(1999). Rethinking early‐modern colonialism: the anomalous state of Ireland. Irish Studies Review: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 13-27
The Cambridge Companion to Spenser
The Cambridge Companion to Spenser provides an introduction to Spenser that is at once accessible and rigorous. Fourteen specially commissioned essays by leading scholars bring together the best recent writing on the work of the most important non-dramatic Renaissance poet. The contributions provide all the essential information required to appreciate and understand Spenser's rewarding and challenging work. The Companion guides the reader through…
Duessa’s Trial and Elizabeth’s Error: Judging Elizabeth in Spenser’s Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser's longest and most important work, The Faerie Queene (1590,1596), has until recently most often been read as a work fulsomely praising Elizabeth.1 Indeed, Karl Marx was moved to label Spenser, 'Elizabeth's arse-kissing poet'.2 Commentators have often assumed that Spenser, like his fellow subjects, worshipped the Virgin Queen and wrote his epic romance in celebration of her rule. After all, the knights within the poem are supposedly…
Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
Shakespeare, Spenser and the Matter of Britain
Shakespeare and republicanism: History and Cultural Materialism
This article argues that Shakespeare studies has been limited by a lack of interest in political analysis and discussion, even though many critics profess that their work is seriously concerned with political issues. The field has become dominated by identity politics and the theoretical exploration of the self, legitimate concerns for a politicized criticism. However, as a result, analysis of political institutions and political treatises has be…
Shakespeare’s Ecumenical Britain
What did Shakespeare think of the British project? Was he in favour of a union? Opposed to one? Did he change his mind? Or did he simply produce a vision in line with popular contemporary thought? His plays show how clearly he was interested in — or at least prepared to engage with — the British question.KeywordsHistorical RecordGood FortunePeace TreatyBritish HistoryPointed ContrastThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Thi…
Pragmatic Utopias: Ideals and Communities, 1200-1630
Rosemary Horrox and Sarah Rees Jones, eds. Pragmatic Utopias: Ideals and Communities, 1200-1630. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. x + 276 pp. index. $60. ISBN: 0-521-65060-7. - Volume 57 Issue 2
Shakespeare and Renaissance Politics
Shakespeare, like many of his contemporaries, was concerned with the question of the succession and the legitimacy of the monarch. From the early plays through the histories to Hamlet, Shakespeare's work is haunted by the problem of political legitimacy."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Shakespeare and Republicanism
This groundbreaking work, first published in 2005, reveals exactly how Shakespeare was influenced by contemporary strands in political thought that were critical of the English crown and constitution. Shakespeare has often been seen as a conservative political thinker characterised by an over-riding fear of the 'mob'. Hadfield argues instead that Shakespeare's writing emerged out of an intellectual milieu fascinated by republican ideas. From the …
Sceptical History and the Myth of the Historical Revolution
Malgré que la question ait été souvent réévaluée attentivement, l'idée que l'écriture de l'histoire ait changé de manière drastique et irréversible au XVIe siècle demeure courante parmi les chercheurs en sciences humaines. Les historiens sont devenus plus sceptiques, ont développé des concepts plus adéquats de temps et d'anachronismes et ont appris à travailler plus prudemment avec les sources. Cet article remet ce point de vue en question, en mo…
Routledge Literary Sourcebook on William Shakespeare's Othello
Introduction: Changing Places in English Renaissance Literature
Extract What is the purpose of writing about other lands or recounting one's experiences of foreign travel? The obvious answer is that such representations increase our knowledge of other cultures, providing information which in some ways may prove useful, challenging, or, at worst diverting. Of course, undertaking the enterprise involves a series of reflections on one's own identity and culture which will inevitably transform the writer concerne…
‘How harmful be the errors of princes’: English Travellers in (Western) Europe, 1545–1620
This chapter explores the writings of English travellers in Western Europe from 1545 to 1620. The first two Tudor monarchs, acutely aware of the parochial north European reputation of their nation's culture, were keen to encourage celebrated international scholars and artists to their courts. They were also prepared to sponsor intellectual traffic the other way, sending prominent courtiers to European cities, most notably Italian ones, in order t…
Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance 1545–1625
What was the purpose of representing foreign lands for writers in the English Renaissance? This book argues that writers often used their works as vehicles to reflect on the state of contemporary English politics, particularly their own lack of representation in public institutions. Sometimes such analyses took the form of displaced allegories, whereby writers contrasted the advantages enjoyed, or disadvantages suffered, by foreign subjects with …
Ireland: Policy, poetics and parody
During the course of their discussion of Irish customs in A View of the Present State of Ireland, Irenius informs Eudoxus that the Gaules used to drinke theire enemyes blodd and to painte themselues therewith So allsoe they write that the owlde Irishe weare wonte And so have I sene some of the Irishe doe but not theire enemyes but friendes blodd as namelye at the execucion of A notable Traitour at Limericke Called murrogh Obrien I sawe an olde wo…
The Religions of the Book: Christian Perceptions, 1400-1660
This is the first study to explore the relationship between Christianity, Judaism and Islam in the Early Modern period. Contributors debate the complicated terms in which these 'Religions of the Book'
Catholic Queen, Protestant Patriarchy: Mary Queen of Scots and the Politics of Gender and Religion
Shakespeare and republicanism
"Andrew Hadfield reveals for the first time exactly how Shakespeare was influenced by contemporary strands in political thought that were critical of the English crown and constitution. Shakespeare has often been seen as a conservative political thinker characterised by an over-riding fear of the 'mob'. Hadfield argues instead that Shakespeare's writing emerged out of an intellectual milieu fascinated by republican ideas. From the 1590s onwards, …
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