The Legacy of Boadicea
Author | : Jodi Mikalachki |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2014-06-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781134689576 |
ISBN-13 | : 1134689578 |
Rating | : 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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 illuminates a 'Boadicean' heritage in royal iconography, drama, and the social symptoms of religious dissent * articulates parallels between the eventual domestication of Britain's warrior queen in Restoration drama, and the social, political and legal decline in the status of women.