Shakespeare and Elizabeth : the meeting of two myths / Helen Hackett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hackett, Helen.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--In literature.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Contemporaries.

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.

Contemporaries.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Relations with literary patrons.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Influence.

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603--In literature.

Elizabeth.

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603--Contemporaries.

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603--Relations with authors.

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603--Influence.

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Relations with authors.

Relations with literary patrons.

Physical Description:

xiii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2009]

Contents:

Introduction

Lives and legends in the eighteenth century

Facts and fictions in nineteenth-century Britain

Shakespeare and Elizabeth arrive in America

Criticism and interpretation: Elizabeth as the key to Shakespeare

New intimacies: Elizabeth in the Shakespeare authorship controversy

Twentieth-century fictions: Shakespeare and Elizabeth meet modernism and postmodernism

Epilogue: Shakespeare and Elizabeth in the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-289) and index.

ISBN:

9780691128061

0691128065

OCLC:

226984637