Cool Britannia represented late-1990s Britain as a fashionable place to be.

The media success of the Turner Prize contributed to the success of (and was in turn helped by) the late 1990s phenomena of Young British Artists (several of whom were nominees and winners), Cool Britannia, and exhibitions such as the Charles Saatchi-sponsored Sensation exhibition.

Cool Britannia, a Britain-wide phenomenon in the 1990s and 2000s.

"Macbeth" is as dark as the other plays are light, but it too dances mischievously between Shakespeare's play and Cool Britannia.

It's slick, clever and playful: it offers a Cool Britannia that doesn't exist in real life in Britain or on television on either side of the Atlantic.

The attitude is very much "Cool Britannia," the sobriquet for the chic, confident spirit of Britain under Prime Minister Tony Blair, crossed with the tongue-in-cheek attitude of Austin Powers, the comic secret agent played in two films by the actor Mike Myers.

The adjective seems a little millennial; one hopes that even Cool Britannia will be able to produce the occasional oddball here and there.

An example is "Cool Britannia" of the 1970s.

Cool Britannia was a long way off.