Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Legacies. "Bisson conspectuities": language and national identity in Shakespeare's Roman plays
  • Profit and delight? magic and the dreams of a nation
  • "A borrowed blood for brute": from Britain to England
  • Ancestors and others. Queens and the British history
  • Dido in Denmark: Danes and Saxons on the early modern English stage
  • Valiant Welshwomen: when Britain came back
  • Athelstan, the virgin king
  • Conclusion.