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Hakluyt, Harvey, Nashe: The Material Text and Early Modern Nationalism

Hakluyt, Harvey, Nashe: The Material Text and Early Modern Nationalism STUDIES  IN  PH ILOLOGY Volume  10 4  Summer   20 0 7  Number   3 Hakluyt, Harvey, Nashe:    The Material Text and Early  Modern Nationalism by Matthew Day ILES  Fletcher’s Of   the Rvsse Common Wealth  (1591)  was  an  engag- ing  if  idiosyncratic work.     Halftra   vel narra   tive and     halfdescri   p-  G tive  geography,  it  combined  an  accountof     Fletcher’s1   588–89  embassy  to  Russia  with  a  descriptionof     the  people  and  the  country.It     toldof     Tsar Ivan  IV’s  murder  of  his  son,  disclosed the  country’s“   plaine  tyrannicall” form of government, and made sweeping assertions about  the  Russian  people:  “the  Russe  neitherb   eleeueth any  thing thatan     other  man  speaketh,  nors   peaketh  any  thinghimself   e  worthieto   b   e  beleeued.”   While  such  rhetorical flourish   es  may  have  been  entertainingth ,  ey  also  proved  problematic.  The  Muscovy  Company  merchants,  who  had  been  tradingin     Russia  since  the  1550s,  wrote  to  Lord  Burleigh seeking  the  tract’ssu   ppression.  They  feared  Fletcher’swork     would  offend  the  tsarand     that“th   e  revenge  thereofwil   l lighton     theire [the  Company’s]  people  and  goodes  remayning  in  Russia,  and  utterlieoverthrowe    the  trade for ever.” Giles Fletcher, Of   the Rvsse Common Wealth  (London,  http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in Philology University of North Carolina Press

Hakluyt, Harvey, Nashe: The Material Text and Early Modern Nationalism

Day, Matthew.
Studies in Philology , Volume 104 (3) – Jul 30, 2007
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STUDIES  IN  PH ILOLOGY Volume  10 4  Summer   20 0 7  Number   3 Hakluyt, Harvey, Nashe:    The Material Text and Early  Modern Nationalism by Matthew Day ILES  Fletcher’s Of   the Rvsse Common Wealth  (1591)  was  an  engag- ing  if  idiosyncratic work.     Halftra   vel narra   tive and     halfdescri   p-  G tive  geography,  it  combined  an  accountof     Fletcher’s1   588–89  embassy  to  Russia  with  a  descriptionof     the  people  and  the  country.It     toldof     Tsar Ivan  IV’s  murder  of  his  son,  disclosed the  country’s“   plaine  tyrannicall” form of government, and made sweeping assertions about  the  Russian  people:  “the  Russe  neitherb   eleeueth any  thing thatan     other  man  speaketh,  nors   peaketh  any  thinghimself   e  worthieto   b   e  beleeued.”   While  such  rhetorical flourish   es  may  have  been  entertainingth ,  ey  also  proved  problematic.  The  Muscovy  Company  merchants,  who  had  been  tradingin     Russia  since  the  1550s,  wrote  to  Lord  Burleigh seeking  the  tract’ssu   ppression.  They  feared  Fletcher’swork     would  offend  the  tsarand     that“th   e  revenge  thereofwil   l lighton     theire [the  Company’s]  people  and  goodes  remayning  in  Russia,  and  utterlieoverthrowe    the  trade for ever.” Giles Fletcher, Of   the Rvsse Common Wealth  (London, 

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Published: Jul 30, 2007

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