Goddesses and Queens (eBook, ePUB)

The iconography of Elizabeth I
Redaktion: Connolly, Annaliese; Hopkins, Lisa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The visual images of Queen Elizabeth I displayed in contemporary portraits and perpetuated and developed in more recent media, such as film and television, make her one of the most familiar and popular of all British monarchs.

This collection of essays examines the diversity of the queen's extensive iconographical repertoire, focusing on both visual and textual representations of Elizabeth, not only in portraiture and literature, but also in contemporary sermons, speeches and alchemical treatises. The collection broadens current critical thinking about Elizabeth, as each of the essays contributes to the debate about the ways in which the queen's developing iconicity was not simply a celebratory mode, but also encoded criticism of her. Each of these essays explains the ways in which the varied representations of Elizabeth reflect the political and cultural anxieties of her subjects

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526162878
• Artikelnr.: 62046876

Autorenporträt

Annaliese Connolly is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Sheffield Hallam University. Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations/Acknowledgements/Notes on contributors Introduction I
A world in crisis: Elizabeth's iconography and religious tensions 1
Elizabeth I as Deborah the Judge: exceptional women of power - Carol
Blessing 2 Warlike mates? Queen Elizabeth, and Joan La Pucelle in 1 Henry
VI - Ben Spiller 3 'Rudenesse it selfe she doth refine': Queen Elizabeth I
as Lady Alchymia - Jayne Elisabeth Archer II Virginia and the Virgin:
Elizabeth and the New World 4 Elizabeth I: size matters - Deanne Williams 5
'And in their midst a sun': Petrarch's Triumphs and the Elizabethan icon -
Heather Campbell 6 'Nature without labor': Virgin Queen and virgin land in
Sir Walter Ralegh's The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre
of Guiana - Helen J. Burgess III The Old World and the New: classical
precedents 7 The dark side of the moon: Semiramis and Titania - Lisa
Hopkins 8 Evaluating virginity: A Midsummer Night's Dream and the
iconography of marriage - Annaliese Connolly 9 Cynthia waning: Cynthia's
Revels imagines the death of the queen - Matthew Steggle IV Coda:
Elizabeth's afterlife 10 'Turn thy Tombe into a Throne': Elizabeth I's
death rehearsal - Scott L. Newstok Index