The Legacy of Boadicea: Gender and Nation in Early Modern EnglandRoutledge, 17. juuni 2014 - 218 pages The Legacy of Boadicea explores the construction of personal and national identities in early modern England. It highlights the problems and anxieties of national identity in a nation with no native classical past. Written in an accessible style, The Legacy of Boadicea: * offers powerful new readings of the ancient British past in Shakespeare's King Lear and Cymbeline * persuasively illuminates a 'Boadicean' heritage in royal iconography, drama, and the social symptoms of religious dissent * articulates parallels between the eventual domestication of Britain's warrior queen in Restoration drama, and the social, political and legal decline in the status of women. |
Contents
1 From Mater Terra to the Artificial Man | |
2 King Lear and the tragedy of native origins | |
3 Cymbeline and the masculine romance of Roman Britain | |
4 The domestication of the savage queen | |
Epilogue | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
Other editions - View all
The Legacy of Boadicea: Gender and Nation in Early Modern England Jodi Mikalachki Limited preview - 2014 |
The Legacy of Boadicea: Gender and Nation in Early Modern England Jodi Mikalachki Limited preview - 1998 |
The Legacy of Boadicea: Gender and Nation in Early Modern England Jodi Mikalachki Limited preview - 1998 |
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