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Shakespeare''s Princes of Wales - English Identity and the Welsh Connection

English · Hardback

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Shakespeare's Princes of Wales examines how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries portrayed the influence of the princedom of Wales.

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  • Introduction: Welsh Princes, English Playwrights

  • 1: The Princedom of Wales as Political Stage

  • 2: England's Hope? Shadowed Heirs in Shakespeare's Histories

  • 3: "Victorious stock ": The "Native " Prince in Edward III, Edward I and Henry V

  • 4: Princes, Playhouses, and the Politics of Empire: Henry Frederick and the Investiture of 1610

  • 5: Anticipating the Revolution: The Princedom in Decline

  • Epilogue: Beyond the Renaissance



About the author

Marisa R. Cull is an Assistant Professor of English at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia.

Summary

Shakespeare's Princes of Wales examines how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries portrayed the influence of the princedom of Wales.

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Marisa Cull's absorbing and innovatiove study demonstrates the profound significance of Wales in general, and Glyn Dwr in particular, for the life and work of Shakespeare.

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