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The Death of Elizabeth I: Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen (Queenship and Power)
Catherine Loomis
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Description for The Death of Elizabeth I: Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen (Queenship and Power)
Hardcover. This book surveys a large and rarely examined body of early modern poems, plays, and prose works written to commemorate Queen Elizabeth I. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
The death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603 was greeted by an outpouring of official proclamations, gossip-filled letters, tense diary entries, diplomatic dispatches, and somber sermons. English poets wrote hundreds of elegies to Elizabeth, and playwrights began bringing her onto the stage. This book uses these historical and literary sources, including a maid of honor's eyewitness account of the explosion of the Queen's corpse, to provide a detailed history of Elizabeth's final illness and death, and to show Elizabeth's subjects - peers and poets, bishops and beggars, women and men - responding to their loss by remembering and reconstructing their ... Read more
The death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603 was greeted by an outpouring of official proclamations, gossip-filled letters, tense diary entries, diplomatic dispatches, and somber sermons. English poets wrote hundreds of elegies to Elizabeth, and playwrights began bringing her onto the stage. This book uses these historical and literary sources, including a maid of honor's eyewitness account of the explosion of the Queen's corpse, to provide a detailed history of Elizabeth's final illness and death, and to show Elizabeth's subjects - peers and poets, bishops and beggars, women and men - responding to their loss by remembering and reconstructing their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Queenship and Power
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230104129
SKU
V9780230104129
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About Catherine Loomis
CATHERINE LOOMIS is an Associate Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, USA.
Reviews for The Death of Elizabeth I: Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen (Queenship and Power)
'Loomis's central point that Elizabeth's death caused a rupture in the traditional fabric of politics and culture cannot be ignored. The prose is accessible without being showy and the research is formidable.' Journal of British Studies "Catherine Loomis's The Death of Elizabeth I: Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen is a valuable addition to the Palgrave series ... Read more