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Overview
This book looks at the genesis of the British national identity in the reign of King James I and VI. While devolution is currently decentralizing Britain, this book examines how the idea of a united kingdom was created in the first place. It does this by studying both the political language of the King’s project to replace England, Scotland, and Wales with a single kingdom of Great Britain and the cultural representations of empire on the public and private stages.
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The towering Elizabethan playwrights were not immolated on her grave when she died in 1603, but were transformed by the succession of James Stuart into proponents of a new national unity, Great Britain, to replace England, Scotland, and Wales and into heralds of what we now know was the starting gun of an age of empire. A specialist in Jacobean cultural history, Marshall examines such works as Middleton's , Rowley's , and Shakespeare's to find the political language of the king's grand project. Distributed in the US by Palgrave. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
November 18, 2000
Publisher
Manchester [England] ; Manchester University Press ; 2000.
Pages
256
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780719057489