Peele's the battle of Alcazar

Authors

Charles Edelman, Edith Cowan University

Document Type

Journal Article

Publisher

Heldref Publications

Faculty

Faculty of Community Services, Education and Social Sciences

School

School of Communications and Arts

RAS ID

4243

Comments

Edelman, C. (2003). Peele's the Battle of Alcazar. The Explicator, 61(4), 196-197. Available here

Abstract

Edelman offers a possible solution to the vexing problem of the use of the term 'Argerd' in George Peele's poem 'The Battle of Alcazar,' to which scholars seem never to have found an explanation. A possible solution to the problem presents itself when one considers that not only people, but also places can be greeted or saluted by the expression 'all hail' and arrange the lines as 'All hail, Argier! Zareo, and ye Moors' instead of 'All haile Argerd Zareo and yee Moores.'

DOI

10.1080/00144940309597808