Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Specter of Spain
1. From Ethos to Ethnos
2. A Long and Lively Antithesis
3. Thomas Kyd's Tragedy of "the Spains"
4. Marlowe Among the Machevills
5. Shakespeare's Comical History
6. Othello's Spanish Spirits: Or, Un-sainting James
Afterword: A Natural Enemy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements

Promotional Information

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.

About the Author

Eric J. Griffin is Associate Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies at Millsaps College.