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 Queen.
| Autor: | Loomis, C. |
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| ISBN: | 9780230104129 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Springer Nature EN |
| Veröffentlicht: | 18.10.2010 |
| Untertitel: | Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen |
| Schlagworte: | B British and Irish Literature British literature Civilization—History Cultural History Early Modern/Renaissance Literature Early Modern and Renaissance Literature European Literature Great Britain—History History History, Modern History of Britain and Ireland Literary studies: general Literature, Modern Literature: history & criticism Modern History Palgrave History Collection Social & cultural history Social History body;corpus;death;drama;manuscript;play;poem;prose |
CATHERINE LOOMIS is an Associate Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, USA.