Shakespeare on the Edge: Border-crossing in the Tragedies and the Henriad by Lisa Hopkins
Shakespeare on the Edge: Border-crossing in the Tragedies and the Henriad
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Lisa Hopkins
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Shakespeare on the Edge: Border-crossing in the Tragedies and the Henriad

Lisa Hopkins

154 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

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When Shakespeare's John of Gaunt refers to England as 'this sceptred isle', he glosses over a fact of which Shakespeare's original audience would have been acutely conscious, which was that England was not an island at all, but had land borders wi...

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