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TY - CHAP
T1 - Writing on Borderlines
T2 - Anglo-Welsh Relations in Thomas Churchyard's The Worthines of Wales
AU - Oakley-Brown, Liz
PY - 2012/5/24
Y1 - 2012/5/24
N2 - This chapter explores representations of community and identity in George Peele's Edward I, focusing in particular on Peele's characterization of the Welsh rebel Lluellen, his caricature of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, last of the Welsh princes of Wales. Edward I enacts the eponymous king's conquest of Wales, but Peele's treatment of the Welsh rebels is less patriotically English than we might otherwise expect in a play written for the London stage. Edward I, Highley writes, uses past Anglo-Welsh conflict as a screen onto which misgivings, anxieties, and fantasies about the English presence in Ireland are projected and interrogated'. Edward I also benefits from the stereotypes of alterity provided by the wild west' of Wales where Lluellen is based. Both Robin and Lluellen are outlaws, located far from Peele's stage, and far enough in the past to be comfortable to a London audience.
AB - This chapter explores representations of community and identity in George Peele's Edward I, focusing in particular on Peele's characterization of the Welsh rebel Lluellen, his caricature of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, last of the Welsh princes of Wales. Edward I enacts the eponymous king's conquest of Wales, but Peele's treatment of the Welsh rebels is less patriotically English than we might otherwise expect in a play written for the London stage. Edward I, Highley writes, uses past Anglo-Welsh conflict as a screen onto which misgivings, anxieties, and fantasies about the English presence in Ireland are projected and interrogated'. Edward I also benefits from the stereotypes of alterity provided by the wild west' of Wales where Lluellen is based. Both Robin and Lluellen are outlaws, located far from Peele's stage, and far enough in the past to be comfortable to a London audience.
U2 - 10.4324/9781315546131-4
DO - 10.4324/9781315546131-4
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85148157342
SN - 9781409445098
SN - 9781138108516
SP - 39
EP - 58
BT - Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism
PB - Routledge
ER -