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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452144703321

Autore

Dobson Michael

Titolo

England's Elizabeth : an afterlife in fame and fantasy / / Michael Dobson and Nicola J. Watson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-280-44491-6

0-19-154181-8

1-4237-5747-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 348 p., [8] p. of plates ) : ill. (some col.) ;

Disciplina

700/.451

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-331) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The Queen is Dead, Long Live the Queen -- Chronology -- Gloriana Revives -- The Private Lives of the Virgin Queen -- Good Queen Bess and Merrie England -- The Faery Queen and Victorian Values -- An Empress and her Adventurers -- Elizabeth Modernized -- Afterword: Virginia in the New World.

Sommario/riassunto

"England's Elizabeth explores the Elizabeths of Shakespeare and Spenser, of Sophia Lee and Sir Walter Scott, of Bette Davis and Glenda Jackson, of Shakespeare in Love and Blackadder II. It is a spirited investigation of England's perennial fascination with a queen who is still engaged in a posthumous progress through the collective pysche of her country."--Jacket.