Philip Schwyzer is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter.

Review of the hardback: 'Philip Schwyzer's is a compelling study. He has explored a good deal of little-examined material … He employs a wide range of theoretical and historical materials with care and precision … this is a book that is ultimately more than the sum of its parts.' The Times Literary Supplement

• Introduction: Remembering Britain; 1. Spenser's spark: British blood and British nationalism in the Tudor era; 2. Bale's books and Aske's abbeys: nostalgia and the aesthetics of nationhood; 3. 'Awake, lovely Wales': national identity and cultural memory; 4. Ghosts of a nation: A Mirror for Magistrates and the poetry of spectral complaint; 5. 'I am Welsh, you know': the nation in Henry V; 6. 'Is this the promised end?': James I, King Lear, and the strange death of Tudor Britain; Bibliography.

Philip Schwyzer is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter.

Review of the hardback: 'Philip Schwyzer's is a compelling study. He has explored a good deal of little-examined material … He employs a wide range of theoretical and historical materials with care and precision … this is a book that is ultimately more than the sum of its parts.' The Times Literary Supplement

• Introduction: Remembering Britain; 1. Spenser's spark: British blood and British nationalism in the Tudor era; 2. Bale's books and Aske's abbeys: nostalgia and the aesthetics of nationhood; 3. 'Awake, lovely Wales': national identity and cultural memory; 4. Ghosts of a nation: A Mirror for Magistrates and the poetry of spectral complaint; 5. 'I am Welsh, you know': the nation in Henry V; 6. 'Is this the promised end?': James I, King Lear, and the strange death of Tudor Britain; Bibliography.

Philip Schwyzer is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter.

Review of the hardback: 'Philip Schwyzer's is a compelling study. He has explored a good deal of little-examined material … He employs a wide range of theoretical and historical materials with care and precision … this is a book that is ultimately more than the sum of its parts.' The Times Literary Supplement

• Introduction: Remembering Britain; 1. Spenser's spark: British blood and British nationalism in the Tudor era; 2. Bale's books and Aske's abbeys: nostalgia and the aesthetics of nationhood; 3. 'Awake, lovely Wales': national identity and cultural memory; 4. Ghosts of a nation: A Mirror for Magistrates and the poetry of spectral complaint; 5. 'I am Welsh, you know': the nation in Henry V; 6. 'Is this the promised end?': James I, King Lear, and the strange death of Tudor Britain; Bibliography.