Legacy of Boadicea

<p><em>The Legacy of Boadicea</em> explores the construction of personal and national identities in early modern England. It highlights the problems and anxieties of national identity in a nation with no native classical past.<br> Written in an accessible style <em>The Legacy of Boadicea</em>:<br> * offers powerful new readings of the ancient British past in Shakespeare's <em>King Lear</em> and <em>Cymbeline</em><br> * persuasively illuminates a 'Boadicean' heritage in royal iconography drama and the social symptoms of religious dissent<br> * articulates parallels between the eventual domestication of Britain's warrior queen in Restoration drama and the social political and legal decline in the status of women.</p>