Introduction: the specter of Spain -- From ethos to ethnos -- A long and lively antithesis -- Thomas Kyd's tragedy of "the spains" -- Marlowe among the machevills -- Shakespeare's comical history -- Othello's Spanish spirits: or, un-sainting James -- Afterword: a natural enemy
Summary
Eric J. Griffin discovers the rhetorical strategies through which the Hispanophobic perspectives now known as the Black Legend of Spanish Cruelty were written into English cultural memory
