This England, that Shakespeare : new angles on Englishness and the bard / edited by Willy Maley and Margaret Tudeau-Clayton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: to England send him: repatriating Shakespeare / Willy Maley and Margaret Tudeau-Clayton -- This England -- Pericles and the language of national origins / Laurie Maguire and Thomas Roebuck -- And bloody England into England gone: empire, monarchy and nation in King John / Willy Maley -- True-born Englishman: Richard II, The merchant of Venice, and the future history of (the) English -- Margaret Tudeau-Clayton -- Eat a leek: Welsh corrections, English conditions, and British cultural communion / Allison M. Outland -- 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 / Alison Thorne -- That Shakespeare -- Imagining England: contemporary encodings of this sceptred isle / Sarah Grandage -- Shakespeare eurostar: Calais, the continent, and the operatic fortunes of Ambroise Thomas / Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo -- Not a man from England: assimilating the exotic other through performance, from Henry IV to Henry VI / Amanda Penlington -- Nation of selves: Ted Hughes's Shakespeare / Neil Corcoran -- Shakespeare-land / Graham Holderness -- Afterword: one of those days in England / Andrew Hadfield.