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Author
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Date published
2010
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Publisher
Farnham : Ashgate, 2010.
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Subject
National characteristics, English, in literature
National characteristics, British, in literature
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Accession number
83443096
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Class
65.08/THI
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ISBN
9780754666028 (hbk.), 0754666026 (hbk.)
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Language
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Physical description
xii, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Formatted contents note: Contents: Pericles and the language of national origins / Thomas Roebuck and Laurie Maguire -- "And bloody England into England gone": empire, monarchy, and nation in King John / Willy Maley -- The "trueborn Englishman": Richard II, The merchant of Venice, and the future history of (the) English / Margaret Tudeau-Clayton -- "O, lawful let it be/That I have room ... to curse awhile": voicing the nation's conscience in female complaint in Richard III, King John, and Henry VIII / Alison Thorne. Uk-SuSCL Contents: "Not a man from England": assimilating the exotic "other" through performance, from Henry IV to Henry VI / Amanda Penlington -- A nation of selves: Ted Hughes's Shakespeare / Neil Corcoran -- Shakespeare-land / Graham Holderness. Uk-SuSCL Summary, etc: 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. Target audience: Specialized.