Philip Schwyzer charts the genesis, development and disintegration of British nationalism in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. An important contribution to the scholarship on early modern Britishness, this study argues that Welsh texts...
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Philip Schwyzer charts the genesis, development and disintegration of British nationalism in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. An important contribution to the scholarship on early modern Britishness, this study argues that Welsh texts and traditions crucially influenced the development of English literature and identity Remembering Britain -- Spenser's spark : British blood and British nationalism in the Tudor era -- Bale's books and Aske's abbeys : nostalgia and the aesthetics of nationhood -- "Awake, lovely Wales" : national identity and cultural memory -- Ghosts of a nation : A mirror for magistrates and the poetry of spectral complaint -- "I am Welsh, you know" : the nation in Henry V -- "Is this the promised end?" : James I, King Lear, and the strange death of Tudor Britain.