Shakespeare and Elizabeth : : The Meeting of Two Myths / / Helen Hackett.

Did William Shakespeare ever meet Queen Elizabeth I? There is no evidence of such a meeting, yet for three centuries writers and artists have been provoked and inspired to imagine it. Shakespeare and Elizabeth is the first book to explore the rich history of invented encounters between the poet and...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2009
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 18 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on the Text
  • Introduction
  • 1 Lives and Legends in the Eighteenth Century
  • 2 Facts and Fictions in Nineteenth-Century Britain
  • 3 Shakespeare and Elizabeth Arrive in America
  • 4 Criticism and Interpretation: Elizabeth as the Key to Shakespeare
  • 5 New Intimacies: Elizabeth in the Shakespeare Authorship Controversy
  • 6 Twentieth-Century Fictions: Shakespeare and Elizabeth Meet Modernism and Postmodernism
  • Epilogue: Shakespeare and Elizabeth in the Twenty-first Century
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index