Towards a Renaissance theory of hybridity -- Giant aspirations: cultural archaeology in Spenser's 1590 Faerie queene -- The view from Ireland: Spenser in 1596 -- Satire and politics in the English Renaissance -- Jacobean absolutism and the rise of tragicomedy -- Afterword: hybrids past and present: the final boundary
In the first book-length study explicitly to connect the postcolonial trope of hybridity to Renaissance literature, Schmidt explores how early modern English authors, artists, explorers and statesmen framed questions of cultural and artistic heterogeneity. He demonstrates how 'postmodern' considerations can be used to elucidate cultural and literary developments in the English Renaissance, revealing a new dimension in the relation of early modern studies to the concerns of the present
