Shakespeare, Marlowe and the Politics of France
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Shakespeare, Marlowe and the Politics of France Richard Hillman Professor of English Universite FrancËois-Rabelais (Tours, France)
Q Richard Hillman 2002 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2002 978-0-333-69454-1 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P OLP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2002 by PALGRAVE Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE is the new global academic imprint of St. Martin's Press LLC Scholarly and Reference Division and Palgrave Publishers Ltd (formerly Macmillan Press Ltd). ISBN 978-1-349-40173-4 ISBN 978-0-230-28585-9 (ebook) DOI 10.1057/9780230285859 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hillman, Richard, 1949- Shakespeare, Marlowe, and the politics of France / Richard Hillman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-349-40173-4 1. Shakespeare, William, 1564±1616±Knowledge±France. 2. Shakespeare, William, 1564±1616±Political and social views. 3. Marlowe, Christopher, 1564±1593±Political and social views. 4. Marlowe, Christopher, 1564±1593±Knowledge±France. 5. English drama±early modern and Elizabethan, 1500±1600±History and criticism. 6. Political plays, English±History and criticism. 7. Political plays, French±History and criticism. 8. English drama±french influences. 9. France±Politics and government. 10. Kings and rulers in literature. 11. France±In literature. 12. Monarchy in literature. I. Title. PR3069.F66 H55 2002 822 0.309 2001050097 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02
Contents Acknowledgements Textual Note vi vii 1 Introduction: the Vasty (Discursive) Fields of France 1 2 The Unfortunate Traveller in (and out of ) France 30 3 Shakespeare's Arthurian Misfortunes 47 4 Marlovian Monarchs and Various Guises 72 5 Turning and Turning Again: Shakespeare's First Tetralogy 112 6 ``Of tendyr hertys been Englysche men'' 171 Notes Works Cited Index 198 227 246
Acknowledgements I wish to express my appreciation to the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada for its generous funding over a period of years, which enabled me to undertake the extensive library research required to complete this project. Thanks are also due to the numerous librarians, especially in France, who provided assistance sur le terrain. The bulk of Chapter 2 was previously published in Critical Approaches to English Prose Fiction 1540±1640, edited by Donald Beecher (Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions, 1998). I am grateful to the publisher for permission to adapt this material here. vi
Textual Note The works of Shakespeare are cited, using the standard abbreviations, from The Riverside Shakespeare, gen. eds G. Blakemore Evans and J. J. M. Tobin, 2nd edn (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997). STC numbers refer to A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1475±1640, first compiled by A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave, 2nd edn, revised and enlarged, begun by W. A. Jackson and F. S. Ferguson, completed by Katharine F. Pantzer, 3 vols (London: The Bibliographical Society, 1986±91). vii