Early Modern European Nations and Empire

DiMatteo, Anthony, 1953-
The Trauma of Empire in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture
College Literature - 35.1, Winter 2008, pp. 175-197

West Chester University

Anthony DiMatteo - The Trauma of Empire in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture - College Literature 35:1 College Literature 35.1 (2008) 175-197 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents The Trauma of Empire in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture Anthony DiMatteo Anderson, Thomas P. 2006. Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton. Aldershot: Ashgate. $94.95 hc. viii + 225 pp. D�ring, Tobias. 2006. Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theater and Early Modern Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. $74.95 hc. viii + 223 pp. Elliott, J. H. 2006. Empires of the Atlantic Worlds: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830. New Haven: Yale University Press. $50.00 hc. $22.00 sc. xxi + 546 pp. Jordan, Constance, and Karen Cunningham, eds. 2007. The Law in Shakespeare. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. $74.95 hc. x + 286 pp. Montrose, Louis. 2006. The Subject of Elizabeth: Authority, Gender, and Representation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. $64.00 hc. $25.00 sc. xii + 341 pp. Shuger, Debora. 2006. Censorship and Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. $59.95 hc. 346 pp. When she did well, what did ther elce amiss? When she did ill what empires could have pleased? (Sir Walter Ralegh, "The Ocean to Cynthia" (qtd. by Montrose 2006, 91) I press'd me none but good householders, yeoman's sons... Such a commodity of warm slaves. (Falstaff, Henry IV, Part One, 4.2.14-17) King...