Goddesses and Queens: The iconography of Elizabeth I

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Annaliese Connolly, Lisa Hopkins
Manchester University Press, 2021 M06 15 - 208 páginas

The visual images of Queen Elizabeth I displayed in contemporary portraits and perpetuated and developed in more recent media, such as film and television, make her one of the most familiar and popular of all British monarchs.

This collection of essays examines the diversity of the queen’s extensive iconographical repertoire, focusing on both visual and textual representations of Elizabeth, not only in portraiture and literature, but also in contemporary sermons, speeches and alchemical treatises. The collection broadens current critical thinking about Elizabeth, as each of the essays contributes to the debate about the ways in which the queen’s developing iconicity was not simply a celebratory mode, but also encoded criticism of her. Each of these essays explains the ways in which the varied representations of Elizabeth reflect the political and cultural anxieties of her subjects

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List of illustrations
exceptional women
Warlike mates? Queen Elizabeth and Joan La Pucelle in 1
Queen Elizabeth I
size matters Deanne Williams
Petrarchs Triumphs and
Virgin Queen and virgin land in
Semiramis and Titania Lisa
A Midsummer Nights Dream and
Cynthias Revels imagines the death of
Elizabeth Is death
Index
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Annaliese Connolly is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Sheffield Hallam University. Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University

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