Shakespeare Newsletter, 2022

, 2019) is a similar kind of cross-cultural defamiliarization, a new perspective on an early-modern figure who in the anglophone West might be instantly recognizable. Representations of Elizabeth I are so familiar a subject in scholarly circles as to be almost hackneyed, hence the distinct note of weariness already evident in Horace Walpole's statement, "a vast ruff, a vaster fardingale, and a bushel of pearls, are the features by which every body knows at once the pictures of Queen Elizabeth." [1] The value of this anthology for scholars of English literature and history is its revelation of the various ways that Gloriana was seen by the great antagonist of her reign's last two decades, Catholic Spain.

The Journal of British Studies, 2010

ELIZABETH I: AUTHORITY AND ICONOGRAPHY [Gropu Essay] / SUBJECT: "WOMEN IN ANGLO-AMERICAN CULTURE" [4th Level of English Studies Degree], 2016

This essay is a short investigation about Elizabeth I in which we can see the image of this woman through analyzing some of her pictures and speeches. She was the last queen of the Tudor dynasty and one of the most important figures in England. The following lines will provide us the basic information to develop this work. Elizabeth I was Henry VIII’s only surviving heir, she lived in the 16th century, a period in which England and Spain were fighting for the supremacy in the Atlantic Ocean. This means that this was a situation of conflicts at sea, piracy and several attacks between nations. She defended the state in such a way that she was admired by the population and she is still one of the most famous women in the world. She said that she was married to England and she governed the country until her last days. One of the most important decisions she took in a moment of internal conflicts was to adopt Protestantism as the official religion. Elizabeth I is portrayed as a queen with many virtues and a lot of power. As we will see in this investigation, she was the ruler of an empire in a situation that it was not easy being a woman because she never got married. It is important to take into account that not being married in that period was a problem for women because the society was very patriarchal and they were submitted to men decisions. We could analyze her from many points of view, but we are going to take her speeches as a reference to analyze her reign as a woman. In order to make this research paper, we have analyzed the speech she gave at Tilbury when The Spanish Armada was traveling to attack England. We will provide to the reader our analysis; besides, we will adjunct a transcription of the speech at the end of the essay in order to let the reader approach it. Moreover, we will see some of her portraits painted during that period in order to analyze their symbology and understand how she was presented to the population.

Bulletin of the Comediantes, 2021

This collection of essays examines a series of cases that illustrate the range of Spanish attitudes towards Elizabeth both during her reign and over several decades after her death. As it does so, it brings to the foreground a significant collection of texts and a few artifacts, some of which have not yet received all the attention they deserve. The book is divided in three parts, each of which focuses on one pressing issue: (1) the Spanish perception and interpretation of Elizabethan political iconography, (2) the presence of Spain in Elizabethan policies and in the representations of her public persona, and (3) the legacy of her image in Spain after her death. As the second topic suggests, the book goes beyond the discrete subject announced in its title, taking into consideration the wider issue of the codification of Spain within the political discourse broadcast by the Elizabethan political establishment.

2000

Strype John Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1822). perfection of our present happiness consisteth, Mary banishes true religion, Elizabeth hath restored it; Mary persecuted it, Elizabeth hath defended it; Mary cast it down, Elizabeth hath advanced it. Mary with the intollerable superstitions of Antechrist, defiled it, Elizabeth by casting them out, hath purged it: so that now with liberty of body we enloy freedome of conscience, in stead of being strangers in other lands. ' Colfe's point of view makes a clear-cut differentiation between the reigns of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, as the polarities of darkness and light, evil and justice. This view-that Elizabeth's accession ushered in a new and better age, in contrast with Mary's brutal persecution-was proclaimed across Protestant literature. One of its earliest and most celebrated expressions was by the Marian exile John Foxe who comments in his Acts and Monuments (1563) that Mary's rule had procured an unprecedented cruelty in English history, "by hanging, beheading, burning, and prisoning, so much christian blood, so many Englishmen's lives, were

Drammaturgia, 2019

In 1603, at the death of Elisabeth I, the succession of James I Stuart to the throne of England marks the beginning of a new policy of openness for the kingdom, admirably pursued by the first-born Henry. The heir to the throne summarizes the far-sighted political visions of his father and the European Renaissance model of the court of Denmark filtered by his mother, Anna of Oldenburg, coming to conceive a magnificent project of political and cultural renewal inspired by the Medici court of Florence. In June 1610, at the age of fourteen, the «Rising Sun of England» officially appeared to the Capital of the kingdom, the English court and the European ambassadors on the occasion of its investiture as Prince of Wales, that strategic dynastic moment that allows him’ to stage’ his precise political project through the wise work of the court poet Ben Jonson. A grand cycle of celebrations that includes chivalrous disfide, naval battles, fireworks and that reaches its ideological climax in the representation of a masque set up by Inigo Jones. A consistent ideological and iconological programme aimed at announcing at the European courts the coming of the English Renaissance, directly inspired by the political and cultural tradition of the Florentine court of the Medici; a ‘European dream’ of wide-ranging, too soon shattered by Henry’s untimely death but which, even in the brevity of its unfolding, has traced the way towards new and unprecedented perspectives.

Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Collection, by Martha Wolff, Susan Frances Jones, Richard G. Mann and Judith Berg Sobré, with contributions by Ilse Hecht, Peter Klein, Cynthia Kuniej Berry, and Larry Silver, Yale University Press, 2008, pp. 318-20

Renaissance and Reformation, 2019

Elizabeth I’s Foreign Correspondence, 2014

As Queen of England, Elizabeth I wrote several hundred letters to the protestant princes of the Holy Roman Empire, and over the years her correspondence with a wide variety of personalities covered a broad range of subjects. 1 She and the princes discussed concerns of practical politics such as commercial interests, births and deaths among ruling elites, and English as well as imperial affairs. They exchanged letters so regularly that they even tended on occasion to send gifts like birds for hunting. Anglo-German relations during the period, however, cannot be characterized only by the mundane minutiae of piracy complaints, babies, and hawks. 2 Indeed, written (and spoken) messages between Elizabeth and the princes more often concerned comparatively grave matters of religious solidarity and protestant security. The wars of religion in France and the Netherlands necessitated some degree of Anglo-German collaboration, and the implicit common confessional bond of anti-Catholicism became the foundation for an increasingly significant relationship. This chapter surveys the correspondence up to 1586 to show Elizabeth's activity and engagement with the German princes during the very years some historians have considered a period of relative inactivity and withdrawal from mainland Europe. 3 Scholars have not entirely neglected Elizabeth's relations with the princes, but most have either considered too narrow a body of sources or have largely dismissed religious sincerity in favor of secular interests. In some respects, the sources readily at the disposal of historians in England are limited relative to those for the Netherlands, France, and Spain. Considering the state papers in The National Archives in London is illustrative enough.