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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"This is an excellent collection. All the essays are very strong and many are by noted scholars. This book will find a wide readership."--Carole Levin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Susan Doran is Stipendiary Lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. Thomas S. Freeman is the Research Officer for the British Academy John Foxe Project and is affiliated with the University of Sheffield.
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Insistence on the popularity and influence of John Foxe's Acts Monuments (commonly known as Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs') become something of a truism among scholars. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Queen Elizabeth, John Foxe, Mary Queen of Scots, Patrick Collinson, English Reformation, Jacobean Perspectives, Virgin Mary, William Camden, Henry Prince of Wales, Roy Strong, Elizabeth Engendered, New York, Richard Fletcher, Robert Cecil, Virgin Mother, Old Testament, Prince Henry, Sir John Harington, Frances Yates, Hayward's Elizabeth, Stephen Gardiner, Susan Frye, Thomas Gresham, Thomas Heywood, Bette Davis New!
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Insistence on the popularity and influence of John Foxe's Acts Monuments (commonly known as Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs') become something of a truism among scholars. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
accession day, clerical marriage, famous memory, female rule, virgin queen, maiden queen, female monarch Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Queen Elizabeth, John Foxe, Mary Queen of Scots, Patrick Collinson, English Reformation, Jacobean Perspectives, Virgin Mary, William Camden, Henry Prince of Wales, Roy Strong, Elizabeth Engendered, New York, Richard Fletcher, Robert Cecil, Virgin Mother, Old Testament, Prince Henry, Sir John Harington, Frances Yates, Hayward's Elizabeth, Stephen Gardiner, Susan Frye, Thomas Gresham, Thomas Heywood, Bette Davis New!
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- The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics) by Edmund Spenser on 17 pages
- Elizabethan Essays by Patrick Collinson on 6 pages
- Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Julia M. Walker on 5 pages
- The Cult of Elizabeth: Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry by Roy Strong on 5 pages
- Edmund Spenser (Longman Critical Readers) by Andrew Hadfield on 5 pages
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- Queenship and Political Discourse in The Elizabethan Realms (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) by Natalie Mears on 4 pages
- Edmund Campion: Memory And Transcription by Gerard Kilroy on page 88, and Back Matter
- Elizabethan Triumphal Processions by William Leahy in Front Matter, and page 51
- Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman by Carole Levin in Back Matter
- The Spanish Armada of 1588: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies of Battles and Leaders) by Eugene L. Rasor on page 63
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