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The place of Wales in Shakespeare, and the place of Shakespeare in Wales, extends far beyond the setting of Cymbeline and the character of Glendower. Megan Lloyd, like Fluellen, offers a Welsh correction to an English condition the condition of paying too little heed to England's neighbor nations. Lloyd is to be congratulated for bringing such clarity of purpose and critical acumen to discussion of the vital but vexed nature of Anglo-Welsh relations in the early modern period.'Speak It in Welsh' is a valuable contribution to current debates around colonial and national identities in Shakespeare and in Renaissance studies more generally. By examining the Welsh dimensions of Shakespeare alongside the work of his contemporaries, and establishing a detailed historical context for questions of language and identity, Lloyd makes a convincing case for the importance of Wales as a site of resistance, a source of rhetoric, and a staging post for idea about empire and union. All those interested

Megan Lloyd's 'Speak It in Welsh' illuminates a usually forgotten aspect of early modern British studies: the place of Wales and the Welsh. By examining how Welsh characters were portrayed in Shakespeare's plays, Lloyd goes to the heart of issues of language, identity, and nation. Her study not only examines Welsh characters, but places them within a cultural context with descriptions of historical Welsh people in early modern Britain. Thoroughly researched and elegantly written, 'Speak It in Welsh' is an important scholarly contribution.--Carole Levin

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Megan S. Lloyd is associate professor at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, PA.

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