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ISBN: 0198183771

ISBN13: 9780198183778

England's Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy

Name: Not just Elizabeth but why she matters
Item: England&#39;s Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy
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By Michael Dobson, Nicola J Watson Dr, Nicola J. Watson

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Book Overview

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.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198183771

ISBN13:9780198183778

Release Date:November 2002

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:368 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 8.6" x 5.7"

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Rated 5 stars
Not just Elizabeth but why she matters

By Thriftbooks.com User, January 15, 2005

Anne Barton, an emerita Cambridge, England professor of literature and history, called this book 'scholarly, wide-ranging, lively and witty', and she doesn't give out praise lightly: she also described it as 'a fascinating cultural history of England itself in terms of its obsession with Anne Boleyn's resilient daughter.' This was in the London Review of Books, which rarely gets that sort of thing wrong, so I bought it. And...

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Gloriana in all her posthumous glory!

By Thriftbooks.com User, March 5, 2003

This is a dazzling piece of cultural history about all the things people have wanted to be true about Elizabeth I whether they are or not, with fantastic pictures drawn from the plays and novels and movies in which her endlessly glamorous afterlife has been lived. It's a great book about why this enigmatic, dangerous woman matters and has mattered: it's funny, it's heartfelt, and it's scholarly too. Perfect for the thinking...

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