1st Edition
The Legacy of Boadicea Gender and Nation in Early Modern England
By Jodi Mikalachki
Copyright 1998
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 From Mater Terra to the Artificial Man; Chapter 2 King Lear and the Tragedy of Native Origins; Chapter 3 Cymbeline and the Masculine Romance of Roman Britain; Chapter 4 The Domestication of the Savage Queen; Epilogue;
Biography
Mikalachki, Jodi
'Anyone involved in the history, culture or literature of early modern England should find her book indispensable' - N'ora S'ellei, HJEAS
