Title: The legacy of Boadicea
First published: 1998
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)
Places: England, Great Britain
People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Boadicea Queen (d. 62)
Time periods: Early modern, 1500-1700, 17th century, Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D., 16th century
LC classification: PR428.B6 M54 1998