Spenserian Tracts - 'A Brief Discourse of Ireland' and 'the Supplication of the Blood of the English' from the Munster Revolt of 1598

A detailed exploration of key documentary sources relating to the end of Edmund Spenser’s time as a planter in Ireland in the midst of a dangerous Irish revolt that reveals a lot about the colonial and religious mentalities involved in Elizabethan England’s imperial venture in Ireland. It makes novel use of stylometric tests to delve deeper into the authorship of these controversial texts. -- .