The legacy of Boadicea

Description:

Exploring the construction of personal and national identities in early modern England, this work highlights problems and anxieties attendant on historicist projects of national identity in a nation with no native classical past.

subjects: History,  Women and literature,  Historiography,  Women soldiers in literature,  English literature,  History and criticism,  Influence,  National characteristics, British, in literature,  History, Ancient, in literature,  Britons in literature,  Boadicea, queen, -62,  Histoire,  Historiographie,  Femmes et littérature,  Britanniques dans la littérature,  Histoire ancienne dans la littérature,  Femmes militaires dans la littérature,  Bretons de Grande-Bretagne dans la littérature,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  European,  English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,  Early modern,  Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.),  Cymbeline (Shakespeare, William),  King Lear (Shakespeare, William)

People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616),  Boadicea Queen (d. 62)

Places: England,  Great Britain

Times: Early modern, 1500-1700,  17th century,  Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D.,  16th century