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9780199269198

England's Elizabeth An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780199269198

  • ISBN10:

    019926919X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-08-26
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

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 psyche of her country.

Author Biography


Michael Dobson is Professor of Renaissance Drama, University of Surrey, Roehampton. He is the author of The Making of the National Poet (OUP, 1992) and co-editor of The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (OUP, 2001).

Nicola J. Watson is a Senior Lecturer at the Open University. She is the author of Revolution and the Form of the British Novel, 1790-1825 (OUP, 1994).

Table of Contents

List of Plates viii
List of Figures x
Introduction: The Queen is Dead, Long Live the Queen 1(31)
Chronology 32(11)
1 Gloriana Revives 43(36)
2 The Private Lives of the Virgin Queen 79(37)
3 Good Queen Bess and Merrie England 116(31)
4 The Faery Queen and Victorian Values 147(32)
5 An Empress and her Adventurers 179(37)
6 Elizabeth Modernized 216(52)
Afterword: Virginia in the New World 268(20)
Notes 288(44)
Acknowledgements 332(3)
Index 335

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