Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the text
- Introduction: remembering Britain
- 1 Spenser's spark: British blood and British nationalism in the Tudor era
- 2 Bale's books and Aske's abbeys: nostalgia and the aesthetics of nationhood
- 3 “Awake, lovely Wales”: national identity and cultural memory
- 4 Ghosts of a nation: A Mirror For Magistrates and the poetry of spectral complaint
- 5 “I am Welsh, you know”: the nation in Henry V
- 6 “Is this the promised end?” James I, King Lear, and the strange death of Tudor Britain
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the text
- Introduction: remembering Britain
- 1 Spenser's spark: British blood and British nationalism in the Tudor era
- 2 Bale's books and Aske's abbeys: nostalgia and the aesthetics of nationhood
- 3 “Awake, lovely Wales”: national identity and cultural memory
- 4 Ghosts of a nation: A Mirror For Magistrates and the poetry of spectral complaint
- 5 “I am Welsh, you know”: the nation in Henry V
- 6 “Is this the promised end?” James I, King Lear, and the strange death of Tudor Britain
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004