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Brian Carroll

Released Wednesday, 30th November 2022
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Brian Carroll

Brian Carroll

Brian Carroll

Brian Carroll

Wednesday, 30th November 2022
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Shakespeare's Sceptered Isle November 30, 2022

What did it mean to be “English” in Shakespeare’s day?   How may Shakespeare’s most patriotic play, Henry V, have shaped notions of English identity ever since?  Brian Carroll’s new book, Shakespeare’s Sceptered Isle: Finding English National Identity in the Plays examines hints in Shakespeare’s text about what his audiences might have thought being “English” was – and perhaps more revealingly, what (or who) wasn’t.

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