Earth, realm, England: national identity and the land in the English history plays of William Shakespeare

<p>When John of Gaunt speaks of ‘this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England’, his words elide local plots of earth with the realm as a whole, suggesting the ‘earth’ (ie. soil) of the ‘blessed plot’ is a necessary component of the ‘realm’ of ‘England’. The order is intriguing: Gaun...

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Main Author: Fairbanks, C
Other Authors: Purkiss, D
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2022
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