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Literature, identity and the British nations

Literature, identity and the British nations. Gabriel Glickman. John Speed, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (1611). John Gipkyn , View of London (1616). Owen Glendower in Shakespeare Henry IV, Part I, III. 1.

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Literature, identity and the British nations

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  1. Literature, identity and the British nations Gabriel Glickman

  2. John Speed, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (1611)

  3. John Gipkyn, View of London (1616)

  4. Owen Glendower in Shakespeare Henry IV, Part I, III. 1 “Give me leaveTo tell you once again that at my birthThe front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,The goats ran from the mountains, and the herdsWere strangely clamorous to the frighted fields.These signs have mark'd me extraordinary… I am not in the roll of common men.”

  5. MacMorris in Shakespeare, Henry V, II.1 ‘What ish my nation? Ish a villain, and a bastard, and a knave, and a rascal. What ish my nation? Who talks of my nation?”

  6. Nicholas Hilliard, Design for the Great Seal of Ireland, 1583

  7. John White, A Pictish Warrior holding a human head (1573)

  8. Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion (1612)

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