On the different voices he employs – falls under the dark shadow of Spain.Įnglish representation of Spain in the 1570s was constituted from many
Imaginary of the globe – contingent as it is on his experiences and Support for, England’s emerging endeavors to reach Cathay by Unknown yet stereotyped Others it ends in open-ended curiosity about, and Representation of “forraine coastes” (I, 345) begins with anxieties about Was his last, but not his first, visit to the continent. The sacking of that city by troops of the Habsburg Empire who, in historyĪs in his telling, gratuitously killed, raped, and looted their way Gascoigne’s construction ofĬulminates in The Spoyle of Antwerpe (1576), his account of That grew, in part, around the wars of religion in the LowĬountries in which he participated. To the action and the passion of his times his taste for analysis andĭesire for fame as a writer allowed him to enter a geopolitical discourse Military officer and a government agent, George Gascoigne had direct access Early Modern Literary Studies 14.1/Special Issue 18 (May, 2008) 7.1-38. "Gascoigne’s Globe: The Spoyle of Antwerpe and the Black Legend of Spain". Spoyle of Antwerpe and the Black Legend of
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