How have the English conceived of Scotland Lorna Hutsons book is an essential intervention in the contested narrative of British nationhood. Hutson shows how Spensers Faerie Queene Shakespeares Henry V and King Lear Plowdens theory of the Kings Two Bodies Camdens Britannia and the race-making in Jonsons Masque of Blackness are all implicated in Englands jurisdictional claim and refusal to acknowledge Scotland as sovereign nation.