The New Elizabethan Age
The New Elizabethan Age

Author: Irene Morra

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-09-30

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0857728342

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In the first half of the twentieth century, many writers and artists turnedto the art and received example of the Elizabethans as a means ofarticulating an emphatic (and anti-Victorian) modernity. By the middleof that century, this cultural neo-Elizabethanism had become absorbedwithin a broader mainstream discourse of national identity, heritage andcultural performance. Taking strength from the Coronation of a new, youngQueen named Elizabeth, the New Elizabethanism of the 1950s heralded anation that would now see its 'modern', televised monarch preside over animminently glorious and artistic age.This book provides the first in-depth investigation of New Elizabethanismand its legacy. With contributions from leading cultural practitioners andscholars, its essays explore New Elizabethanism as variously manifestin ballet and opera, the Coronation broadcast and festivities, nationalhistoriography and myth, the idea of the 'Young Elizabethan', celebrations ofair travel and new technologies, and the New Shakespeareanism of theatreand television. As these essays expose, New Elizabethanism was muchmore than a brief moment of optimistic hyperbole. Indeed, from moderndrama and film to the reinternment of Richard III, from the London Olympicsto the funeral of Margaret Thatcher, it continues to pervade contemporaryartistic expression, politics, and key moments of national pageantry.

Society in the Elizabethan Age (Classic Reprint)
Society in the Elizabethan Age (Classic Reprint)

Author: Hubert Hall

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-21

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9781331921271

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Excerpt from Society in the Elizabethan Age In the following pages I have once more tendered my mite of industry towards the tardy restoration-fund of historical research; this time in the further hope of proving that original matter is not necessarily uninteresting, but that the Romance of Society, as read in the infallible records of the past, possesses attractions greater and more lasting than a many conceptions of impossible humanity. In these Essays descriptive of social life during the second half of the 16th century, I have attempted to place before the reader some familiar names in new characters, with the aid of a mass of information, desultory I must confess, but perhaps curious, as it is certainly new. The "star" of this historical company is none other than that lord of Littlecote whose evil fame has descended to us from a barely contemporary gossip, and is now best known through the exquisitely pathetic ballad of "The Friar of Orders Grey," in Rokeby, together with Burke's version of the same legend. In these pages Wild Darrell will appear in two parts, those of the Landlord and the Courtier, while his name or fortunes will be found more or less connected with several other characters of the period. Dr. Richard Cox, Elizabeth's Bishop of Ely, will speak for the state of the Anglican Church, with Latimer as prologue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

'Untamed Desire'
'Untamed Desire'

Author: Alan Haynes

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780811715249

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Explores sexual behavior in the Elizabethan age through the literature and literary personalities of the period. A discussion of brothels, love and marriage, homosexuality, and transvestism included.