The Myth of Elizabeth

ISBN-13: 9780333930847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 269 str.

MR Thomas S. Freeman; Susan Doran

Opis

Elizabeth I is one of England's most admired and celebrated rulers. She is also one of its most iconic. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the origins and development of the image and myths that came to surround the Virgin Queen. The essays question the prevailing assumptions about the mythic Elizabeth and challenge the view that she was unanimously celebrated in the literature and portraiture of the early modern era. They explain how the most familiar myths surrounding the queen developed from the concerns of her contemporaries and continue to reverberate today. Published to mark the 400th anniversary of the queen's death, this volume will appeal to all those with an interest in the historiography of Elizabeth's reign and Elizabethan, and Jacobean, poets and dramatists.

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List of Illustrations.- Introduction; S.Doran and T.S.Freeman.- PART ONE: TROJAN HORSES: CONTEMPORARY CRITICISMS OF ELIZABETH.- Providence and Prescription: the Account of Elizabeth in Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs'; T.S.Freeman.- Duessa's Trial and Elizabeth's Error: Judging Elizabeth in Spenser's Faerie Queen; A.Hadfield.- PART TWO: JACOBEAN PERSPECTIVES: POLITIC PRINCESS OR PROTESTANT HEROINE?.- William Camden and the Anti-Myth of Elizabeth: Setting the Mould?; P.Collinson.- Elizabeth in Arcadia: Fulke Greville and John Hayward's Construction of Elizabeth, 1610-12; L.Richardson.- Drama Queen: Staging Elizabeth in If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody; T.Grant.- 'A Very Deborah?' The Myth of Elizabeth I as a Providential Monarch; A.Walsham.- PART THREE: ELIZABETH ENGENDERED: THE PRESENTATION AND PRACTICE.- Virginity, Divinity and Power: the Portraits of Elizabeth I; S.Doran.- Queen Elizabeth and Mrs Bishop; B.Usher.- Harington's Gossip; J.Scott-Warren.- A Queen for All Seasons: Elizabeth I on Film; T.Betteridge.- List of Abbreviations.- Notes and References.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.

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SUSAN DORAN is a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University, UK.

THOMAS S. FREEMAN is the Research Officer for the British Academy John Foxe Project and is affiliated with the University of Sheffield.

Blurb

Elizabeth I is one of England's most admired and celebrated rulers. She is also one of its most iconic: her image is familiar from paintings, film and television.
This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the origins and development of the image and myths that came to surround the Virgin Queen. The essays question the prevailing assumptions about the mythic Elizabeth and challenge the view that she was unambiguously celebrated in the literature and portraiture of the early modern era. They explain how the most familiar myths surrounding the queen developed from the concerns of her contemporaries and yet continue to reverberate today.
Published to mark the 400th anniversary of the queen's death, this volume will appeal to all those with an interest in the historiography of Elizabeth's reign and Elizabethan, and Jacobean, poets, dramatists and artists.