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This chapter will discuss violence in Shakespeare, especially in the connection to war and expansion, in the context of works like The Spanish Colonie (1583), the first English translation of Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies. Some of the ethnographical and travel writing that Richard Hakluyt the Younger collects also helps to provide a context for Shakespeare’s representations of the conflict between cultures and nations and the violence that entails, whether in Shakespeare’s Roman plays, English histories, or the romances. The halting expansion of England was partly defined through this conflict in antiquity and in the meeting of cultures that had been isolated or relatively isolated from each other, including the relation between Europe and the New World.
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Hart, J. (2015). Trauma in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. In: The Poetics of Otherness. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137477453_4
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