By Jonathan Hart
ISBN-10: 0230105092
ISBN-13: 9780230105096
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries begins with Shakespeare’s England and expands to a global sooner than, after, and beyond. With a watch to language, style, drama, and literary and ancient narrative, this e-book examines the comedy of Shakespeare within the context of comedies from Italy, Spain, and France within the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Hakluyt was busy gathering information on rivals in North American colonization, especially on Spain. He knew the work of Peter Martyr, Gómara, Oviedo, Benzoni and others who wrote about Spanish colonization and others, like La Popelinière (Lancelot Voisin) who wrote about French colonies. 107 In Paris, Hakluyt may have met with Duplessis-Mornay (Philippe de Mornay, seigneur du Plessis-Marly), a Huguenot hostile to Spain, and a diplomat who, serving Henri de Navarre as his ambassador in London in 1577–78, knew Walsingham and Lady Stafford.
The Black Legend of Spain made its appearance in Ralegh as it had in Hakluyt’s “Discourse” (1584). ”134 In Ralegh’s view, if Elizabeth were to act and take Guiana and beyond, she would gain reputation. . , London, 1614), like Pierre d’Avity’s work, often represented a providential history but also compared the Romans negatively to the Spanish in the New World. 136 The translation of texts about far-off places from other rival states continued to be an important part of the English effort at expansion.
This remarkable document, meant for the private consumption of the queen and her counselors, fell between the voyages of Frobisher and Gilbert on the one hand and Ralegh’s Roanoke and Chesapeake voyages on the other. The secretary of state, Sir Francis Walsingham, as mentioned earlier, appears to have employed Hakluyt as a means to support Ralegh. com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-04-02 26 l Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Ralegh’s example as a colonizer was known in France, particularly among the Huguenots, whose leader Coligny was dead and who could find few leaders interested in colonization during the French Wars of Religion.