商品簡介
This collection of scholarly articles on Queen Elizabeth I examines the development of the monarchy and English identity through her personal writings and construction of political dialogue and court culture, the reactions of internal adversaries, and legacy of her reign on the development of English cultural identity and its relationship to the monarchy. Topics discussed include power negotiations in the poetry of Elizabeth I, Elizabeth and the rhetoric of courtly mystification, Machiavellian tyranny and the challenges of a political theology in post-Elizabethan England. Contributors include English and Italian scholars in English literature and history. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Alessandra Petrina is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Universita di Padova, Italy. She has published The Kingis Quair (Padova, 1997), Cultural Politics in Fifteenth-century England. The Case of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (Leiden, 2004), and Machiavelli in the British Isles. Two Early Modern Translations of the Prince (Farnham, 2009).
