By Margaret Tudeau-Clayton, Willy Maley
Is Shakespeare English, British, neither or either? Addressing from a variety of angles the relation of the determine of the nationwide poet/dramatist to buildings of britain and Englishness, this number of essays probes the advanced matters raised by means of this query, first via explorations of his performs, mostly although no longer completely the histories (Part One), then via dialogue of a number of next appropriations and reorientations of Shakespeare and 'his' England (Part Two). If Shakespeare has been taken to face for Britain in addition to England, as though the 2 have been interchangeable, this double id has come lower than expanding pressure with the break-up - or shake-up - of england via devolution and the tip of Empire. Essays partly One learn how the fissure among English and British identities is probed in Shakespeare's personal paintings, which straddles an important juncture whilst an England newly self sufficient from Rome used to be negotiating its position as a part of an rising British country and empire. Essays partly then discover the vexed family members of 'Shakespeare' to buildings of authorial identification in addition to nationwide, classification, gender and ethnic identities. At this important ancient second, among the stressed interrogations of the tercentenary celebrations of the Union of Scotland and England in 2007 and the quatercentenary celebrations of the demise of the bard in 2016, amid an expanding clamour for a separate English parliament, whilst the tip of england is being foretold and whilst flags and emotions are operating excessive, this assortment has a topicality that makes it of curiosity not just to scholars and students of Shakespeare stories and Renaissance literature, yet to readers in and out the academy attracted to the drama of nationwide identities in a time of transition.
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Stm, 5 April 2004. Accessed 16/02/09. 43 Multicultural England does not pose a problem for John Sentamu, Archbishop of York who advocated an inclusionary vision to be celebrated on St George’s Day. ‘Archbishop ZDYHVÀDJIRU(QJODQG¶The Observer, April 5, 2009, News, 7. stm, 14 January 2006. Accessed 16/02/09. 18 This England, That Shakespeare / Maley and Tudeau-Clayton as threatened by the new dispensation under a Scots king. Like verse form, diction too was (as it continues to be) a site of ideological and political contestation, as Tudeau-Clayton points out, arguing that Shakespearian practice sets itself against the exclusionary violence of the (emergent) ideology of the ‘King’s English’.
Both these issues we will return to in the conclusion. 15 John Dee’s lament for the loss of tombs and historical artefacts is characteristic: ‘O Glastonbury, Glastonbury, the treasurie of the carcases of so famous, and so many persons … how lamentable is thy case now! 18 14 On the society of antiquaries as an important site of intellectual exchange see Linda van Norden, ‘The Elizabethan College of Antiquaries’ (unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of California at Los Angeles, 1946) and the suggestive remarks in Mordechai Feingold, ‘The Origins of the Royal Society, Revisited’, in Margaret Pelling and Scott Mandelbrot (eds), The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine and Science, 1500–2000 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), 167–183, 175–6.
64 The historical object recovered from the sea in Pericles, the centrepiece of one scene and a crucial prop in another, is the rusty armour. ,Q$FW3HULFOHVLVVKLSZUHFNHGDW3HQWDSROLVZKHUHWKUHH¿VKHUPHQHNHRXWWKHLU OLYHOLKRRGVRQWKHVKRUH7KH¿VKHUPHQDUHH[FLWHGDVWKH\GUDZXSWKHLUQHW +HUH¶VD¿VKKDQJVLQWKHQHW«¶WZLOOKDUGO\FRPHRXW+DERWVRQ¶W¶WLVFRPH at last, and ’tis turned to a rusty armour. 112–15) However, this armour complicates any simple narrative of historical recovery; instead it embodies historical contradictions.