Staging Britain's Past

Staging Britain''s Past is the first study of the early modern performance of Britain''s pre-Roman history. The mythic history of the founding of Britain by the Trojan exile Brute and the subsequent reign of his descendants was performed through texts such as Norton and Sackville''s Gorboduc, Shakespeare''s King Lear and Cymbeline, as well as civic pageants, court masques and royal entries such as...