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Heather James shows how Shakespeare's use of Virgil, Ovid and other classical sources forms part of a larger attempt to find historical legitimacy for Britain as a realm asserting its status as an empire. She goes on to distinguish Shakespeare's deployment of the myth from 'official' Tudor and Stuart ideology.James, Heather is the author of 'Shakespeare's Troy Drama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire', published 2007 under ISBN 9780521033787 and ISBN 0521033780.
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