Christopher Ivic - Shakespeare and National Identity: A Dictionary

ARDEN SHAKESPEARE DICTIONARY SERIES

SERIES EDITOR

Sandra Clark (Birkbeck College, University of London)

Class and Society in Shakespeare Paul Innes

Military Language in Shakespeare Charles Edelman

Shakespeares Books Stuart Gillespie

Shakespeares Demonology Marion Gibson

Shakespeares Insults Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin

Shakespeare and the Language of Food Joan Fitzpatrick

Shakespeares Legal Language B. J. Sokol and Mary Sokol

Shakespeares Medical Language Sujata Iyengar

Shakespeares Musical Language Christopher R. Wilson

Shakespeare and National Identity Christopher Ivic

Shakespeares Non-Standard English N. F. Blake

Shakespeares Political and Economic Language Vivian Thomas

Shakespeares Theatre Hugh Macrae Richmond

Shakespeare and Visual Culture Armelle Sabatier

Women in Shakespeare Alison Findlay

FORTHCOMING:

Shakespeare and Animals Karen Raber

Shakespeare and Domestic Life Sandra Clark

Shakespeare and London Sarah Dustagheer

To my children,
Alexander, Anna, Marika and Sophia, transnationals

I would like to thank my home university, Bath Spa University, for supporting this project in various ways. Two of my colleagues, Tracey Hill and Ian Gadd, have shared their knowledge of all things early modern with me. It has been a pleasure co-teaching and discussing Shakespeare with Ian. Grant Williams kindly read and commented on select entries. Special thanks are due to Sandra Clark, series editor, who provided encouragement and a wealth of information. Extra special thanks are due to my wife, Amanda, for invaluable support throughout this project.

The Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries aim to provide the student of Shakespeare with a series of authoritative guides to the principal subject areas covered by the plays and poems. They are produced by scholars who are experts both on Shakespeare and on the topic of the individual dictionary, based on the most recent scholarship, succinctly written and accessibly presented. They offer readers a self-contained body of information on the topic under discussion, its occurrence and significance in Shakespeares works, and its contemporary meanings.

The topics are all vital ones for understanding the plays and poems; they have been selected for their importance in illuminating aspects of Shakespeares writings where an informed understanding of the range of Shakespeares usage, and of the contemporary literary, historical and cultural issues involved, will add to the readers appreciation of his work. Because of the diversity of the topics covered in the series, individual dictionaries may vary in emphasis and approach, but the aim and basic format of the entries remain the same from volume to volume.

Sandra Clark

Birkbeck College

University of London

Aeneas

Afric, Africa, African

Agincourt

Albion

Aleppo

alien

Amazon

America see Indies

Anthropophagi see cannibalism

Antipodes

Arabia

Arthur

Athens

banish, banishment

barbarian, barbarous

Barbary

Barnet

bastard

Belgia see Low Countries

black

blackamoor see Moor

blood

borders see also marches, pale

Bosworth

Bretagne

Britain see also Britons, island

Britons

brother, brothers, brotherhood

brutish

Cambria see Wales

cannibalism

chronicles

Cimmerian

citizen see also people

civil, civility

civil war see also Wars of the Roses

clime

common, commons, commoner, commoners, commonalty

commonwealth, commonweal, weal

complexion

conquest

country see also countryman, countrymen

countryman, countrymen

crown

Cyprus

degeneration see also Ireland

Denmark

descent

dominion

Dover

Dutch see Low Countries

Egypt

empire

England

English see England

Ethiop

exile see banish, banishment

fair

filicide, fratricide, patricide

Flanders see Low Countries

foreign

forgetting see also lethargy, Lethe, oblivion

France

fratricide see filicide

French see France

Gallia see France

galloglass see also kern

Germany

Goth

Greece

Greek see Greece

Gypsy

Harfleur

Holland see Low Countries

hue

impregnable

incivil, incivility, uncivil

India, Indian, Indies