Learned queen
Subtitle: the image of Elizabeth I in politics and poetry
By: Linda Shenk.
Series: Queenship and power
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780230615625
Subjects: Elizabeth -- I, -- Queen of England, -- 1533-1603 -- In literature; Elizabeth -- I, -- Queen of England, -- 1533-1603 -- Literary art; Elizabeth -- I, -- Queen of England, -- 1533-1603 -- Knowledge and learning; Elizabeth -- I, -- Queen of England, -- 1533-1603 -- Knowledge -- International relations; Elizabeth -- I, -- Queen of England, -- 1533-1603 -- Public opinion; Kings' and rulers' writings, English -- History and criticism; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century; Queens -- Great Britain -- Public opinion; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1558-1603 -- Sources; Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Sources
Genres: Sources
Description: "The first book to examine Queen Elizabeth I as a "learned prince," Learned Queen reveals a rather startling phenomenon: Elizabeth's educated status was crucial to England's burgeoning role as an international power. Examining Elizabeth's own demonstrations of erudition alongside literary works of such political luminaries as Sir Philip Sidney and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, this book reveals how poetry, foreign relations, and intellectual culture are far more integrated than we have hitherto imagined. From these connections emerges a methodology that places Elizabethan political culture and poetry fully on the transnational stage."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Queen Solomon: Elizabeth I in Christian prayers and meditations; title: A wise Elizabeth and her devoted diplomats: Sidney's The lady of May and Anglo-Dutch relations; title: Queen of the word: Elizabeth, divine wisdom, and apocalyptic discourse in the 1580s; title: Philosopher queen: Elizabeth's transcendent wisdom in the 1590s; title: A loving scholar of his queen's wisdom: the Earl of Essex, Anglo-French affairs and of love and self-love; title: Afterword: Elizabeth, Shakespeare, and the concord of folly.