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Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism Edited by Stewart Mottram and Sarah Prescott Writing Wales, from the renaissance to romanticism Writing Wales explores representations of Wales in english and Welsh literatures written across a broad sweep of history, from the union of Wales with england in 1536 to the beginnings of its industrialization at the turn of the nineteenth century. the collection offers a timely contribution to the current devolutionary energies that are transforming the study of British literatures today, and it builds on recent work on Wales in renaissance, eighteenth-century and romantic literary studies. What is unique about Writing Wales is that it cuts across these period divisions to enable readers for the first time to chart the development of literary treatments of Wales across three of the most tumultuous centuries in the history of British state-formation. Writing Wales explores how these period divisions have helped shape scholarly treatments of Wales, and it asks if we should continue to reinforce such period divisions, or else reconfigure our approach to Wales’s literary past. The essays collected here reflect the full 300-year time span of the volume and explore writers canonical and non-canonical alike: george Peele, michael Drayton, henry Vaughan, Katherine Philips, and John Dyer here feature alongside other lesser-known authors. the collection showcases the wide variety of literary representations of Wales, and it explores relationships between the perception of Wales in literature and the realities of its role on the British political stage. This page has been left blank intentionally Writing Wales, from the renaissance to romanticism Edited by steWart mottram University of Hull, UK and sarah Prescott Aberystwyth University, UK © Stewart Mottram and Sarah Prescott and the contributors 2012 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. stewart mottram and sarah Prescott have asserted their right under the copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Published by ashgate Publishing limited ashgate Publishing company Wey Court East Suite 420 Union Road 101 Cherry Street farnham Burlington Surrey, GU9 7PT VT 05401-4405 england Usa ashgate Website: http://www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data mottram, stewart James. Writing Wales, from the renaissance to romanticism. 1. Wales – in literature. 2. national characteristics, Welsh, in literature. 3. english literature – Early modern, 1500–1700 – History and criticism. 4. English literature – 18th century – History and criticism. 5. Welsh literature – Early modern, 1500–1700 – history and criticism. 6. Welsh literature – 18th century – history and criticism. i. title ii. Prescott, sarah, 1968– 820.9’358429–dc23 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Writing Wales, from the renaissance to romanticism / edited by stewart mottram and sarah Prescott. p. cm. includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Wales—in literature. 2. english literature—history and criticism. 3. Welsh literature— history and criticism. 4. national characteristics, Welsh, in literature. i. mottram, stewart James. ii. Prescott, sarah, 1968– PR149.W3W75 2012 820.9’358429—dc23 2012011245 ISBN 9781409445098 (hbk) ISBN 9781409445104 (ebk – PDF) ISBN 9781409471073 (ebk – ePUB) V contents List of Figures vii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgements xiii introduction 1 Stewart Mottram and Sarah Prescott Part 1 Renaissance to Seventeenth Century 1 early modern Welsh nationalism and the British history 21 Grace Jones 2 Writing on Borderlines: anglo-Welsh relations in thomas churchyard’s The Worthines of Wales 39 Liz Oakley-Brown 3 Green Tights and Swordfights: Edward I and the making of memories 59 Alex May 4 ‘Prince of Wales by cambria’s full consent’?: the Princedom of Wales and the early modern stage 75 Marisa R. Cull 5 William Browne and the Writing of early stuart Wales 91 Stewart Mottram Part 2 Seventeenth Century to Romanticism 6 morgan llwyd and the foundations of the ‘nonconformist nation’ 111 M. Wynn Thomas 7 ‘if there be helicon in Wales it is’: Writing Wales in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Poetry 131 Sarah Prescott vi Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism 8 ‘No rebellious jarring noise’: Expressions of Loyalty to the British State in Eighteenth-Century Welsh Writing 149 Bethan Jenkins 9 ‘Walking Conundrums’: Masquerades, Riddles, and National Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century Wales 167 Mary Chadwick 10 Haunted by History: Welsh Gothic 1780–1800 183 Jane Aaron Bibliography 201 Index 219 list of figures 5.1 frontispiece to Poly-Olbion, engraved by William hole; from michael Drayton, A chorographicall description … of this renowned isle of Great Britain (london, 1622). © the British library Board, shelfmark 838.m.1. 94 This page has been left blank intentionally notes on contributors Jane Aaron is Professor of english at the University of glamorgan. she is the author of A Double Singleness: Gender and the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb (clarendon Press, 1991), Pur fel y Dur: Y Gymraes yn Llên y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg (University of Wales Press, 1998), and Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity (University of Wales Press, 2007), which won the roland mathias Prize in 2009. for the honno classics series, which she edits, she co-edited The Very Salt of Life: Welsh Women’s Political Writings from Chartism to Suffrage (2007), and edited the anthology A View across the Valley: Short Stories by Women from Wales 1850–1950 (1999). she is also the co-editor of Out of the Margins: Women’s Studies in the Nineties (falmer Press, 1991), Our Sisters’ Land: The Changing Identities of Women in Wales (University of Wales Press, 1994), Postcolonial Wales (University of Wales Press, 2005), and Gendering Border Studies (University of Wales Press, 2009). Mary Chadwick is completing an ahrc-funded PhD in the Department of english and creative Writing at aberystwyth University. her thesis is entitled: ‘the literary Pursuits of a Denbighshire community, 1780–1820’ and investigates the ways in which members of a north Welsh gentry community express ideas of national identity in poems, riddles, and letters preserved in the archive of the Griffiths of Garn, held by the National Library of Wales. Her research interests include the consumption of popular culture in Wales, postcolonial theory and its applicability to Wales and Welsh history, and the ways in which the socializing influences to which Welsh men and women were subject shaped their attitudes towards the country of their birth. Marisa R. Cull joined the English faculty at Randolph-Macon College in ashland, Virginia, in september 2008 after completing her PhD at ohio state University. She is currently finishing a monograph titled Shakespeare’s Princes of Wales: English Identity and the Welsh Connection. a portion of this work appeared in Shakespeare and Wales, edited by Willy maley and Philip schwyzer (ashgate, 2010). she has published essays in Comitatus and The Humanities Review. her primary research projects are focused on the convergences of British history, national identity, and the english stage. Bethan Jenkins is a graduate of trinity college, oxford, and now works for the History Faculty Library, Bodleian Libraries. She was awarded her DPhil on British and Anglo-Welsh identity in the context of a growing hegemonic sense of Britishness in the eighteenth century in 2010. She has presented papers on these topics at various international conferences, including the annual British Society for eighteenth-century studies conference, and conferences at the centre for advanced Welsh and celtic studies (caWcs) at aberystwyth. she has held the sir t.h. Parry-Williams scholarship at caWcs as a research assistant for

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