This England, That Shakespeare

Contents: Introduction: 'To England send him': repatriating Shakespeare, Willy Maley and Margaret Tudeau-Clayton Part 1 This England: 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 'true-born Englishman': Richard II, The Merchant of Venice, and the future history of (the) English, Margaret Tudeau-Clayton 'Eat a leek': Welsh corrections, English conditions, and British cultural communion, Allison M. Outland '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. Part 2 That Shakespeare: Imagining England: contemporary encodings of 'this sceptred isle', Sarah Grandage Shakespeare Eurostar: Calais, the Continent, and the operatic fortunes of Ambroise Thomas, Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo '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 Afterword: one of those days in England, Andrew Hadfield Works cited Index

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Calais · Curse · Empire · English literature · Literature · New england · Performance art · Politics · Sociology · Welsh · Anthropology · Classics · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · 1564-1616 · Anglais dans la littérature · British · Criticism and interpretation · Drama · England · Knowledge · Literary Criticism · National characteristics · National characteristics in literature · National characteristics, british · National characteristics, english · National characteristics, English, in literature · Nationalism in literature · Political and social views · Shakespeare · Shakespeare, william · Shakespeare, william, histories