The Legacy of Boadicea 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. Written in an accessible style, The Legacy of Boadicea: * offers powerful new readings of the ancient British past in Shakespeares King Lear and Cymbeline * persuasively illuminates a Boadicean heritage in royal iconography, drama, and the social symptoms of religious dissent * articulates parallels between the eventual domestication of Britains warrior queen in Restoration drama, and the social, political and legal decline in the status of women.
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