Staging England in the Elizabethan History Play: Performing National Identity

Contents: Preface Introduction: performing national identity on the early modern stage. Part I Territory: Plotting England: the transformation of territory into homeland Mapping the globe: the cartographic gaze and Henry IV Part 1. Part II History: Making history: staging the national past Nationalizing history? The Anglica Historia, Richard III and the appropriation of the English past. Part III Religion: Performing religion: belief and national identity The new faith of the nation: religion in King John. Part IV Class: How common is the commonwealth? Class and national identity 'Infinite numbers': nation and class in Henry VI Part 2. Part V Gender: Women on top: gender and national identity The private is political: gender and nation in Edward II Conclusion: early modern Englishness and the transformative power of the performative. Bibliography Index.