ENGL 3020 Lecture 23: Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni
29 Nov 2016
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Why are we looking at bonduca: revenge play. But it gets subverted by patriarchy: progressive narrative, translatio imperii. Some of the metals they needed were only located in britannia (such as. Tin) so they were very interested in dominating the land: rome never really got control of the north of the island of britannia (modern day scotland) as this land was fiercely inhabited by the picts. This made it appear that after years of being friendly back to rome, now. Rome expected the tribes to pay back all the gifts they had been given something that unsurprisingly angered the tribes peoples. When tribal chiefs died without an heir, the land was forfeited to rome. Boudiccan inheritance: boudicca"s story was essentially rediscovered and inherited by writers such as. Shakespeare, fletcher, and milton: the english came to see themselves as peoples who would refuse making the same mistakes of the romans of the past.
