Who is here so vile that will not love his country? (William Shakespeare, 'Julius Caesar,' 1599)(Editorial)

The Magazine Antiques | October 1, 1996| | Copyright

The Elizabethan poets felt the excitement of living in what they knew to be England's golden age. They had a new awareness of what it felt like to be English. The poet Michael Drayton's love was for his native wooded Warwickshire, where he usually spent the summer, as Shakespeare did. Drayton retreated to Clifford Chambers, a half-timbered house on the Stout River, a couple of miles from Stratford-upon-Avon.

Land was king in England - land and all other forms of property, protected from the administrative absolutism of the Continent by The Channel. England's officials ...

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