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England's Elizabeth Michael Dobson

England's Elizabeth By Michael Dobson

England's Elizabeth by Michael Dobson


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Glamorous and controversial, Elizabeth I has lived on in England's imagination for four hundred years. This illustrated book explores England's perennial fascination with Elizabeth, and the extraordinary diversity of representations, high and low, in drama, poetry, painting, propaganda, film, and television.

England's Elizabeth Summary

England's Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy by Michael Dobson

No monarch is more glamorous or more controversial than Elizabeth I. The stories by which successive generations have sought to extol, explain, or excoriate Elizabeth supply a rich index to the cultural history of English nationalism - whether they represent her as Anne Boleyn's suffering orphan or as the implacable nemesis of Mary, Queen of Scots, as learned stateswoman or as frustrated lover, persecuted princess or triumphant warrior queen. This book examines the many afterlives the Virgin Queen has lived in drama, poetry, fiction, painting, propaganda, and the cinema over the four centuries since her death, from the aspiringly epic to the frankly kitsch. Exploring the Elizabeths of Shakespeare and Spenser, of Sophia Lee and Sir Walter Scott, of Bette Davis and of Glenda Jackson, of Shakespeare in Love and Blackadder II, this is a lively, lavishly-illustrated investigation of England's perennial fascination with a queen who is still engaged in a posthumous progress through the collective pysche of her country.

England's Elizabeth Reviews

a fascinating cultural history of England itself in terms of its obsession with Anne Boleyn's resilient daughter ... a scholarly, wide-ranging, lively and often witty book Anne Barton, London Review of Books a compelling book, energetically and often wittily written, and drawing on a wide range of media History Today wide-ranging, lively and often witty book that you will read long after this quatercentenary year, which has provided its occasion, has passed London Review of Books

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations; Chronology; Introduction: The Queen is Dead, Long Live the Queen; 1. Gloriana Revives; 2. The Private Lives of the Virgin Queen; 3. Good Queen Bess and Merrie England; 4. The Faery Queen and Victorian Values; 5. An Empress and her Adventurers; 6. Elizabeth Modernized; Afterword: Virginia in the New World; Notes; Index

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GOR010187199
9780199269198
019926919X
England's Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy by Michael Dobson
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Oxford University Press
20040701
360
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