This England, That Shakespeare

Willy Maley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is editor, with Philip Schwyzer, of Shakespeare and Wales: From the Marches to the Assembly (Ashgate, 2010). Margaret Tudeau-Clayton is Professor of English and Head of Department at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland; she is author of Jonson, Shakespeare and Early Modern Virgil (1998; pbk 2006)

'a valuable and stimulating set of contributions which will be a welcome addition to the current stable of "national" Shakespeare work ...' Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, UK and author of Shakespeare on the Edge 'Concentrating mainly but not exclusively on history plays and on various later cultural uses of the figure of Shakespeare, the essays complement each other nicely, and collectively offer a valuable and stimulating set of contributions which is a welcome addition to the current stable of 'national' Shakespeare work, while at the same time making it clear that there is room for much more work in this area. ... The essays work well collectively as well as individually to make the volume a satisfying whole rather than merely the sum of its parts...' Review of English Studies

• Contents: Introduction: 'To England send him': repatriating Shakespeare, Willy Maley and Margaret Tudeau-Clayton; Part 1 This England: Pericles and the language of national origins, Thomas Roebuck and Laurie Maguire; 'And bloody England into England gone': empire, monarchy and nation in King John, Willy Maley; The 'true-born Englishman': Richard II, The Merchant of Venice, and the future history of (the) English, Margaret Tudeau-Clayton; 'Eat a leek': Welsh corrections, English conditions, and British cultural communion, Allison M. Outland; 'O, lawful let it be/That I have room ... to curse awhile': voicing the nation's conscience in female complaint in Richard III, King John and Henry VIII, Alison Thorne. Part 2 That Shakespeare: Imagining England: contemporary encodings of 'this sceptred isle', Sarah Grandage; Shakespeare Eurostar: Calais, the Continent, and the operatic fortunes of Ambroise Thomas, Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo; 'Not a man from England': assimilating the exotic 'other' through performance, from Henry IV to Henry VI, Amanda Penlington; A nation of selves: Ted Hughes's Shakespeare, Neil Corcoran; Shakespeare-land, Graham Holderness; Afterword: one of those days in England, Andrew Hadfield; Works cited; Index.