This England, that Shakespeare: New Angles on Englishness and the BardMargaret Tudeau-Clayton, Willy Maley The essays in this book examine how the fissure between English and British identities is probed in Shakepeare's own work, which straddles a vital juncture when an England newly independent from Rome was negotiating its place as part of an emerging British state and empire. |
Contents
Pericles and the Language of National Origins | 23 |
Empire Monarchy | 49 |
Richard II The Merchant of Venice | 63 |
Welsh Corrections English Conditions | 87 |
Contemporary Encodings | 127 |
Assimilating the Exotic Other | 165 |
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