Queenship and Power: Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen

Loomis, C.

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.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-12-04

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349288656

DOI: 10.1057/9780230112131

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 238