Early Drama, Art, and Music (EDAM) has an established reputation for publishing specialized high-quality scholarship through Medieval Institute Publications. The current EDAM Editorial Board interprets its core business in drama, art, and music in very permissive ways that reflect current critical trends. The Board seeks submissions from new as well as established scholars with an interest in, for example, performativity, rituals, somatic reception, and medievalism, as well as in fresh departures in the study of plays, visual and plastic arts, and music. The time is ripe for a more global reach, to expand the conventional Aanglphone and Latin base into explorations of a wider range of traditions from medieval Europe and beyond. This book examines the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century engagement with a crucial part of Britain's past, the period between the withdrawal of the Roman legions and the Norman Conquest. A number of early modern plays suggest an underlying continuity, an essential English identity linked to the land and impervious to change. This book considers the extent to which ideas about early modern English and British national, religious, and political identities were rooted in cultural constructions of the pre-Conquest past.