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On Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature: Essays

John Kerrigan

Print publication date: 2001

Print ISBN-13: 9780199248513

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199248513.001.0001

William Drummond and the British Problem

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(p. 152 ) Chapter 8 William Drummond and the British Problem
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On Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature
Author(s):

John Kerrigan

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199248513.003.0008

This chapter discusses a long poem by William Drummond called Forth Feasting. The poem displays a heightened value of the King by emphasizing Scotland's grief at his absence. This makes that absence seem more unfortunate, and for this it compensates by extrapolating James's success as a Scottish king into his achievements after 1603. Through his poem, Drummond is also able to emphasize the cost of union.

Keywords:   poem, William Drummond, Forth Feasting, King, Scotland, grief, union

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