Forms of Nationhood. Selected Papers from the ‘Shakespeare and His Contemporaries’ Graduate Conference / Florence – 10 April 2014

This collection of essays brings together the contributions of some of the scholars who took part in the “Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Graduate Conference”, a one-day conference organized by the British Institute of Florence and the Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies on 10 April 2014. Under the subtitle “Forms of Nationhood”, a tribute to Richard Helgerson’s 1992 seminal study, the volume presents investigations on constructions of Englishness, Britishness and otherness in early modern plays, masques, treatises and travelogues.