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'What think you of this present state?': representations of Scotland and Anglo-Scottish union in Robert Greene's 'The Scottish History of James the Fourth' and John Ford's 'Perkin Warbeck.'
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Journal Article
'What think you of this present state?': representations of Scotland and Anglo-Scottish union in Robert Greene's 'The Scottish History of James the Fourth' and John Ford's 'Perkin Warbeck.'
2017
Overview
[...]wisdom eludes the Scottish king, who remains the 'foreign' embodiment of a 'slippery state', in a way which gives the lie to his father-in-law's paroxysms of familial amity. [...]at an early stage, the King of England hands down a thread of English monarchical political insight, which it is to become incumbent on his daughter to bring to Scotland. [...]Ford draws on a tradition in which 'the English had projected onto Scotland the intemperate characteristics associated with extremely northern complexions - slow wits, ferocity, and barbarism':50 Are all our braving enemies shrunk back, Hid in the fogs of their distempered climate, Not daring to behold our colours wave In spite of this infected air? (4.1.14) This is but a cold phlegmatic country, not stirring enough for men of spirit; give me the heart of England for my money. [...]Perkin Warbeck owes considerably more to Shakespeare than simply constituting a late homage to his history plays; Ford employs the same outward appearance of ideological conservatism whilst simultaneously exposing the cracks - in this case, the divisions and differences -within a united Great Britain and between conflicting monarchical ideals. Greene envisages a royal union with Scotland, whilst Ford considers the limitations of merely royal union in a Great Britain divided politically, militarily, religiously and culturally. [...]we can trace a gradual move from a perception of the potential benefits and necessary political weighting of a monarchical Great Britain (which, Greene's play suggests, must be largely Anglocentric and Europhobic) to dubiety in Ford's play about Great Britain's stability, and a recognition of the endurance and hierarchy of separate national identities within that union. 1 Steven G. Ellis and Christopher Maginn, The Making of the British Isles: The State of Britain and Ireland, 1450-1660 (Abingdon: Routledge 2013), p. 290.
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Matthew Steggle,Matthew Steggle, Editor, EMLS
