THIS ENGLAND, THAT SHAKESPEARE This page has been left blank intentionally This England, That Shakespeare New Angles on Englishness and the Bard Edited by WILLY MALEY University of Glasgow, Scotland MARGARET TUDEAU-CLAYTON University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland © Willy Maley and Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and the contributors 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. 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Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 – Histories. 2. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 – Political and social views. 3. Nationalism in literature. 4. National characteristics, English, in literature. 5. National characteristics, British, in literature. I. Maley, Willy. II. Tudeau-Clayton, Margaret 822.3’3–dc22 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data This England, that Shakespeare: new angles on Englishness and the bard / edited by Willy Maley and Margaret Tudeau-Clayton. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7546-6602-8 (alk. paper)—ISBN 978-1-4094-0429-3 (ebook) 1. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616—Knowledge—England. 3. National characteristics, English, in literature. I. Tudeau-Clayton, Margaret II. Maley, Willy. PR2989.T47 2010 822.3’3—dc22 2009052875 ISBN 9780754666028 (hbk) ISBN 9781409404293 (ebk) II Contents List of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction: ‘To England send him’: Repatriating Shakespeare 1 Willy Maley and Margaret Tudeau-Clayton Part 1 This England 1 Pericles and the Language of National Origins 23 Thomas Roebuck and Laurie Maguire 2 ‘And bloody England into England gone’: Empire, Monarchy, and Nation in King John 49 Willy Maley 3 The ‘trueborn Englishman’: Richard II, The Merchant of Venice, and the Future History of (the) English 63 Margaret Tudeau-Clayton 4 ‘Eat a Leek’: Welsh Corrections, English Conditions, and British Cultural Communion 87 Allison M. Outland 5 ‘O, lawful let it be/ That I have room … to curse awhile’: Voicing the Nation’s Conscience in Female Complaint in Richard III, King John, and Henry VIII 105 Alison Thorne Part 2 That Shakespeare 6 Imagining England: Contemporary Encodings of ‘this sceptred isle’ 127 Sarah Grandage 7 Shakespeare Eurostar: Calais, the Continent, and the Operatic Fortunes of Ambroise Thomas 147 Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo vi This England, That Shakespeare 8 ‘Not a man from England’: Assimilating the Exotic ‘Other’ Through Performance, from Henry IV to Henry VI 165 Amanda Penlington 9 A Nation of Selves: Ted Hughes’s Shakespeare 185 Neil Corcoran 10 Shakespeare-land 201 Graham Holderness Afterword: One of Those Days in England 221 (cid:36)(cid:81)(cid:71)(cid:85)(cid:72)(cid:90)(cid:3)(cid:43)(cid:68)(cid:71)(cid:191)(cid:72)(cid:79)d Works Cited 225 Index 251 List of Illustrations 3.1 Woodcut portrait of an Englishman, c. 1550, from Andrew Boorde, The First Book of the Introduction of Knowledge, ed. F.J. Furnivall (London, Early English Text Society, 1870), p. 116. 84 (cid:22)(cid:17)(cid:21)(cid:3) (cid:55)(cid:75)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:191)(cid:74)(cid:88)(cid:85)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:82)(cid:73)(cid:3)(cid:87)(cid:75)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:80)(cid:82)(cid:87)(cid:79)(cid:72)(cid:92)(cid:3)(cid:71)(cid:85)(cid:72)(cid:86)(cid:86)(cid:72)(cid:71)(cid:3)(cid:40)(cid:81)(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:76)(cid:86)(cid:75)(cid:80)(cid:68)(cid:81)(cid:29)(cid:3)(cid:74)(cid:72)(cid:81)(cid:72)(cid:68)(cid:79)(cid:82)(cid:74)(cid:92)(cid:3) of a cultural meme. Layout: Matthias Heim. 85 6.1 Cline of allusivity. Design: Sarah Grandage. 138 7.1 Francis I and Henry VIII at Channel Tunnel mouth (Calais). By permission Archives Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne. 160 7.2 Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare gaze down the Channel Tunnel. By permission Archives Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne. 162 7.3 Programme cover to the video presentation of the Compiègne production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Covent Garden (2003). By permission Archives Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne. 164 8.1 Henry V, Royal Shakespeare Company (2000). By permission Malcolm Davies Collection. © Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. 176 8.2 Henry VI, Royal Shakespeare Company (2000). By permission Malcolm Davies Collection. © Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. 181 This page has been left blank intentionally Notes on Contributors Clara Calvo is Professor of English Literature at the University of Murcia (Spain). She has written on Shakespeare and language and on Shakespeare’s reception in (cid:54)(cid:83)(cid:68)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:17)(cid:3)(cid:43)(cid:72)(cid:85)(cid:3)(cid:85)(cid:72)(cid:86)(cid:72)(cid:68)(cid:85)(cid:70)(cid:75)(cid:3)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:87)(cid:72)(cid:85)(cid:72)(cid:86)(cid:87)(cid:86)(cid:3)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:70)(cid:79)(cid:88)(cid:71)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:54)(cid:75)(cid:68)(cid:78)(cid:72)(cid:86)(cid:83)(cid:72)(cid:68)(cid:85)(cid:72)(cid:182)(cid:86)(cid:3)(cid:68)(cid:73)(cid:87)(cid:72)(cid:85)(cid:79)(cid:76)(cid:89)(cid:72)(cid:86)(cid:3)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:3)(cid:191)(cid:70)(cid:87)(cid:76)(cid:82)(cid:81)(cid:3)(cid:68)(cid:81)(cid:71)(cid:3)(cid:82)(cid:81)(cid:3)(cid:87)(cid:75)(cid:72)(cid:3) screen, and the role of Shakespeare in a shared European transnational cultural identity. She is the author of Power Relations and Fool–Master Discourse in Shakespeare (1991) and has coauthored, with Jean Jacques Weber, The Literature Workbook (1998). She has edited, with Ton Hoenselaars, a volume on “European Shakespeares” for The Shakespearean International Yearbook (2008). She is currently working on Shakespeare and the Great War. Neil Corcoran is King Alfred Professor of English Literature at Liverpool University. His books include critical studies of David Jones and Seamus Heaney; a revised, enlarged edition of his study of Heaney, The Poetry of Seamus Heaney, appeared in 1998. Other books include: English Poetry since 1940 (1993); a study of modern Irish literature entitled After Yeats and Joyce: Reading Modern Irish Literature (1997); a collection of essays, Poets of Modern Ireland: Text, Context, Intertext (1999); a critical monograph, Elizabeth Bowen: The Enforced Return (2004); and an edited collection of essays on the work of Bob Dylan called Do You, Mr Jones?: Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors (2002). His most recent books are, as editor, the Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry (2007) and, as author, Shakespeare and the Modern Poet (2010). Sarah Grandage is a postgraduate teaching fellow in the School of English Studies at the University of Nottingham working on a literary/linguistic doctoral research project exploring Shakespearean allusion in contemporary newspaper discourse. Her main interests are in stylistics, the language/literature interface, dramatic discourse, the creativity of language in use, and cognitive linguistics. She is also interested in applied linguistics in the areas of discourse analysis and language processing. As a research associate, she was part of an interdisciplinary team from within the university working on an ESRC-funded project, ‘The acquisition of multi-word structures’. (cid:36)(cid:81)(cid:71)(cid:85)(cid:72)(cid:90)(cid:3)(cid:43)(cid:68)(cid:71)(cid:191)(cid:72)(cid:79)(cid:71) is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance (1994), Spenser’s Irish Experience: Wilde Fruit and Salvage Soyl (1997), Literature, Travel and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance, 1545–1625 (1999), and The English Renaissance, 1500–1620 (2000). His most recent works includes Shakespeare, Spenser and the Matter of Britain (2003), and Shakespeare and Republicanism (2005). He has also edited The Oxford History of the Irish