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Author_Philippa Berry
Book III
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Diane De Poitiers
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Elizabeth's Cult
Elizabethan Entertainment
Elizabeth’s Cult
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Faerie Queene
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Female Beloved
Female Monarch
French Renaissance Literature
Gr Av
Henri II
Henri III
Kenilworth Entertainment
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Love Discourses
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Male Courtier
Male Monarch
Medieval Courtly Love
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Ralegh
Renaissance Neoplatonism
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Rime Sparse
Secular Games
Sir Walter Ralegh
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Unmarried Queen
Wild Man
Wisdom Figure
Woodstock Entertainment
Product details
- ISBN 9780415056724
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 06 Oct 1994
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Elizabeth I was one of the most powerful women rulers in European history. What can feminism reveal about the attitudes of her male subjects towards this enigmatic figure?
Through readings of key Elizabethan texts by Lyly, Ralegh, Chapman, Shakespeare, and Spenser, Philippa Berry shows that while Elizabeth's combination of chastity with political and religious power was repeatedly idealized, it was also perceived as extremely disturbing. The figure of the unmarried queen implicitly challenged the masculine focus of Renaissance discourses of love, philosophy and absolutist political ideology.
In her exploration of the potent combination of themes of sexuality and politics with classical myth and Neoplatonic mysticism, Berry offers a radical reassessment of the status of `woman' as a bearer of meaning within Renaissance literature and culture.
