This long-awaited and masterfully edited volume contains nearly all of the writings of Queen Elizabeth 1: the clumsy letters of childhood, the early speeches of a fledgling queen, and the prayers and poetry of the monarch's later years. The first collection of its kind, Elizabeth I reveals brilliance on two counts; that of the Queen a dazzling ...
Many readers and students do not recognise the extent to which modern standard editions of Shakespeare, Milton, Marlowe and other Renaissance authors have been filtered through eighteenth-century and Victorian sensibilities. In Unediting the Renaissance Leah Marcus reveals the vast array of possibilities opened up by 'unediting' these texts. With ...
Queen Elizabeth's prayers, poems, speeches, and letters, transcribed from the earliest sources, are anthologized in this volume. This collection emotionally reveals the accomplished literary life of the Virgin Queen.
Recently the University of Chicago Press published "Elizabeth I: Collected Works" to considerable critical acclaim. "Collected Works" brought together for the first time in one volume the speeches, poems, prayers and selected letters of Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), all in modernized spelling and punctuation. With this new volume, Januel Mueller ...
The present study will focus on a marginal group of ceremonies related to the rites of church and state but practiced only sporadically in the seventeenth century--the traditional popular pastimes associated with seasonal holidays like Christmas, May Day, Whitsuntide, St. Bartholomew's Day and Michaelmas.
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