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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777721403321

Autore

Collinson Patrick

Titolo

Elizabethans / / Patrick Collinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Hambledon and London, , 2003

ISBN

1-4742-1033-3

1-282-30946-3

9786612309465

0-8264-3070-8

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

942.055

Soggetti

Great Britain History Elizabeth, 1558-1603

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 De Republica Anglorum: or History with the Politics Put Back; 2 The Monarchical Republic of Queen Elizabeth I; 3 Puritans, Men of Business and Elizabethan Parliaments; 4 Windows in a Woman's Soul: Questions about the Religion of Queen Elizabeth I; 5 'Not Sexual in the Ordinary Sense': Women, Men and Religious Transactions; 6 Truth and Legend: The Veracity of John Foxe's Book of Martyrs; 7 Perne the Turncoat: An Elizabethan Reputation; 8 William Shakespeare's Religious Inheritance and Environment; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The age of Elizabeth I continues to exercise a fascination unmatched by other periods of English history. Yet while the leading figures may seem familiar, many Elizabethan figures, including the queen herself, remain enigmatic. In Elizabethans Patrick Collinson examines the religious beliefs both of Elizabeth and of Shakespeare, as well as redrawing the main features of the political and religious structure of the reign. He understands the characters of the period as individuals but is also sensitive to the attitudes and beliefs of the day