The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622 studies the conception of Persia in the literary, political and pedagogic writings of Renaissance England and Britain. It argues that writers of all kinds debated the means and merits of English empire through their intellectual engagement with the ancient Persian empire.

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University College Dublin, Ireland

Jane Grogan

About the author

Jane Grogan is a Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of Exemplary Spenser (2009; winner of the Isabel MacCaffrey prize) and the editor of Celebrating Mutabilitie: Essays on Edmund Spenser's Mutabilitie Cantos (2010) and several journal articles.

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Book Title: The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622
Authors: Jane Grogan
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137318800
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-34326-9Published: 27 February 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34461-1Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31880-0Published: 18 February 2014
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 256
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Asian Literature, Medieval Literature

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Reading Persia in Renaissance England

Classical Persia: Making Kings and Empires

Romance Persia: ‘Nourse of Pompous Pride’

Staging Persia: ‘To ride in triumph through Persepolis’

Sherley Persia: ‘Agible things’

Epilogue: Ormuz

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