Elizabeth I by Janel Mueller

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Through the transcriptions of texts in her own hand, readers can track the Queen's language and compositional style. The texts in foreign languages, meanwhile, will allow readers to prepare their own English translations from these original sources.

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Elizabeth I by Janel Mueller

Through the transcriptions of texts in her own hand, readers can track the Queen's language and compositional style. The texts in foreign languages, meanwhile, will allow readers to prepare their own English translations from these original sources.
A major scholarly achievement that makes Elizabeth's mind much more accessible than before...A veritable feast of material in different genres. - David Norbrook, The New Republic A substantial, scholarly, but accessible, collection of much of Elizabeth's written utterance....An invaluable work of reference. - Patrick Collinson, London Review of Books
Janel Mueller is professor of English, the William Rainey Harper Professor in the College, and dean of the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The Native Tongue and the Word: Developments in English Prose Style 1380-1580. Leah S. Marcus is the Edwin Mims Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Her books include Puzzling Shakespeare: Local Reading and Its Discontents and Unediting the Renaissance: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton. With Mary Beth Rose, Mueller and Marcus edited Elizabeth I: Collected Works.
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ISBN 13 9780226504704
ISBN 10 0226504700
Title Elizabeth I
Author Janel Mueller
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Year published 2003-02-02
Number of pages 183
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