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Title: Elizabeth I: Collected Works by Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, Mary Beth Rose ISBN: 0-226-50465-4 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Faith
Comment: This is a beautifully designed book. As to what's inside: It contains what too many of her biographers are either too dishonest, too ignorant, or, too afraid to include, i.e. her belief in God and her understanding that her country and her country's people had a unique place and a unique role in carrying out God's plan. Elizabeth I had a complete understanding. It's difficult to write off her accomplishments in learning at such a young age as being merely the result of having royal tutors helping her along. This is what many biographers try to do. There's never been an over-supply of young genius in royal families in any era. More attention, as well, should be paid to her reading. Reading great books has never been a guarantee of anything regarding somebody's understanding of themselves and the world, but it is, without exception, a key ingredient in the education (self-education or otherwise) of everybody who eventually DOES attain a real understanding of themselves and the world. Elizabeth's understanding may have even gone beyond herself and the world around her... These writings are not ideal as a window into her, but there is enough here to work up an impression above the words, and, coupled with a good biography such as the one by Paul Johnson the picture can become very complete.
Rating: 5
Summary: Elizabeth in her own words
Comment: Queen Elizabeth I of England has had hundreds of books written *about* her, but very few of them allow us to hear what she has to say in her own words. I found this an accessible, well-edited collection, not of *all* her words, but of a very good sample. It includes all of the speeches, prayers and poems she wrote that are available from reliable contemporary sources (as with all famous people, things have been attributed to her that she never wrote). It also includes -- and this is my favorite part -- a selection of her letters; sometimes the replies are also included, as with a series of angry letters she exchanged with King James of Scotland (all the while addressing him as "my right dear brother and cousin"). The documents range from formal speeches to Parliament to the occasional playful, teasing or personal note, such as the one she wrote to Lord Leicester in the Netherlands that begins, "Rob, I am afraid you will suppose by my wandering writings that a midsummer moon hath taken large possession of my brains..." Spelling and punctuation have been modernized, and unusual words have been footnoted, but the words are otherwise unaltered, and the texts are presented in full, sometimes in several versions where they differ significantly. I did find that a basic knowledge of the outline of the events of her life is immensely helpful in understanding who she is addressing and why, which is often mentioned only briefly in the notes. There is a certain amount of theorizing in the book's Preface about the "strategic gendering of Elizabeth's self-representation" -- but the texts really speak for themselves. This is a rare chance to see historical material that's often hard to locate, and an enjoyable chance to be "inside the head" of a fascinating historical person.
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Title: Elizabeth I: The Competition for Representation by Susan Frye ISBN: 0195113837 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power (New Cultural Studies) by Carole Levin ISBN: 0812215338 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: July, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: Elizabethan & Jacobean Style by Timothy Mowl ISBN: 071484120X Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 26 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir ISBN: 0345425502 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Elizabeth I by Wallace T. MacCaffrey ISBN: 0340614552 Publisher: Edward Arnold Pub. Date: August, 1994 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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