- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford (7 Nov 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198183771
- ISBN-13: 978-0198183778
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 786,649 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The authors of this work have handled most of the disparate mass of information with skill. (American Historical Review )
... the pictures wonderfully illustrate her incarnations. England's Elizabeth dazzles. (The Independent magazine )
Their book is an excellent example of a distinctly modern (indeed post modern) genre of biographical writing Dobson and Watson are balanced and incisive Jonathan Bate (The Sunday Telegraph )
England's Elizabeth is a scholarly, wide-ranging, lively and often witty book that will be read long after this quatercentenary year, which has provided its occasion, has passed. (Anne Barton, Guardian Unlimited )
a compelling book, energetically and often wittily written, and drawing on a wide range of media (History Today )
The presentation's most revealing movements range well beyond the field of Renaissance studies, endowing the book with an unusually broad appeal. (Sixteenth-Century Journal )
... the pictures wonderfully illustrate her incarnations. England's Elizabeth dazzles. (The Independent magazine )
Their book is an excellent example of a distinctly modern (indeed post modern) genre of biographical writing Dobson and Watson are balanced and incisive Jonathan Bate (The Sunday Telegraph )
England's Elizabeth is a scholarly, wide-ranging, lively and often witty book that will be read long after this quatercentenary year, which has provided its occasion, has passed. (Anne Barton, Guardian Unlimited )
a compelling book, energetically and often wittily written, and drawing on a wide range of media (History Today )
The presentation's most revealing movements range well beyond the field of Renaissance studies, endowing the book with an unusually broad appeal. (Sixteenth-Century Journal )
The Independent magazine
"... the pictures wonderfully illustrate her incarnations. England's Elizabeth dazzles."
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you are looking for the real, final, historical truth about the real Elizabeth I, this book isn't for you -- or perhaps it is. By the time you get to the end of it, you may be wondering whether there is such a thing as a real truth about Elizabeth, since *England's Elizabeth*, instead of tracing her biography, explores her afterlives -- the ways in which writers since her death have wanted to make sense of her, whether in biographies, novels, plays, costume movies or even works of soft porn. Why do we desire to know Elizabeth so avidly? this is a question which this book poses very articulately, and with a fabulous array of examples -- colour pictures and all. This is a dense, challenging read, a virtuoso piece of cultural history about Englishness, ideas of royalty and more, but it's always clear and often very funny. Suitably admiring of *Blackadder II* as well, and unwilling to dismiss the adventure stories and children's history books in which most of us first met Elizabeth as so much trash either. This isn't a definitive study of Elizabeth's life, but it has to be the definitive study of her lives. Cheap for such a beautifully produced book, even at full price.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have to mention the pictures in this book first -- they do so much to help the writers tell their story and analyse what it is that we have gone on wanting from the Virgin Queen. Where did they find all this stuff?? it's telling, it's funny, it's very very smart. If you ever wondered why Elizabeth I; if you ever wondered why we go on wanting movies about her, or history books, or bodice-ripping novels: if you ever wondered what England means...this is a compelling, intellectual poem of a book, and just look at those pictures!
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a very clever book, and very funny with it; also quite wonderfully illustrated. It has to be the best ever book about a celebrity's reputation -- and when that celebrity is Elizabeth I, the kinks and fluctuations and byways of that reputation over 400 years make amazing reading. Anyone who cares about Elizabeth needs a copy of this book, along with the Rose/Mueller/Marcus edition of Elizabeth's writings and a good biography -- this is the work that completes the story of Elizabeth by charting her afterlife. The colour pictures would alone be worth the price, but the cultural history is terrific -- a fabulous chapter on how Victoria became a sort of posthumous rival to Elizabeth, for example, producing all kinds of stories about Elizabeth as old and flirtatious at once, and some great anecdotes and artefacts people wanted to believe showed Elizabeth had been Shakespeare's best friend. A very good read, and a must-have Christmas present...
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