 | English Renaissance Drama and the Specter of Spain: Ethnopoetics and Empire Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan 1500–1600 -- History and criticism; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Spain -- In literature; National characteristics Spanish in literature; Spain -- Foreign public opinion British -; Eric J. Griffin discovers the rhetorical strategies through which the Hispanophobic perspectives now known as the Black Legend of Spanish Cruelty were written into English cultural memory. Eric J. Griffin is Associate Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies at Millsaps College. |
