Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm
An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy
Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm
ISBN: 978-0-19-926919-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press
England's 400-year fascination with Queen Elizabeth I
'An enjoyably unsolemn survey of everything (from dolls to advertising) that still reminds us of England's Virgin Queen.' The Scotsman
KEY FEATURES:
* How propaganda, art, poetry, film, and television have made use of Elizabeth I over 400 years
* Ranges from Shakespeare to Shakespeare in Love, from Sir Walter Scott to Blackadder
* Michael Dobson is co-editor of The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
DESCRIPTION:
Good Queen Bess, The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, The Faery Queen. No monarch is more glamorous or more controversial than Elizabeth I. The stories by which successive generations have sought to extol or explain her provide an unexpected index of national identity. She has been portrayed variously as suffering orphan, the implacable nemesis of Mary Queen of Scots, as learned stateswoman, frustrated lover, persecuted princess, and as triumphant warrior queen.
This book examines the many afterlives the Virgin Queen has lived in the arts, and propaganda 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, 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.
Zielgruppe
Renaissance scholars, historians of nationalism, readers with an interest in Elizabeth I (visitors to Tudor palaces, viewers of costume-dramas, readers of popular history).
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
