Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-207) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Part One. Legacies. "Bisson conspectuities" : language and national identity in Shakespeare's Roman plays -- Profit and delight? : magic and the dreams of a nation -- "A borrowed blood for brute" : from Britain to England -- Part Two. Ancestors and others. Queens and the British history -- Dido in Denmark : Danes and Saxons on the early modern English stage -- Valiant Welshwomen : when Britain came back -- Athelstan, the virgin king -- Conclusion.
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