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Chapter 11 - The Many Labours of Mourning a Virgin Queen

from Part III - The Ends of Commemoration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2022

By
Andrew Hiscock
Edited by
William E. Engel ,
Rory Loughnane  and
Grant Williams
William E. Engel
Affiliation:
University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
Rory Loughnane
Affiliation:
University of Kent, Canterbury
Grant Williams
Affiliation:
Carleton University, Ottawa
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The chapter concentrates upon the wealth of early modern responses to the demise of Elizabeth I in 1603. Particular attention is played to the Petrarchan discourse of eternizing, the memorialization of the last Tudor monarch in her own lifetime, and the scriptural and mythological associations which shaped the early modern reception of Elizabeth. The continuities between textual and artistic productions during the period are explored with reference to Elizabethan iconography and there is sustained analysis in this context of published miscellanies mourning the queen shortly after her death. The discussion concludes with a consideration of how dynastic change and the strategic deployment of cultural amnesia also influenced the age’s evocation of Elizabeth in the decades after her passing.

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Elizabeth ImourningmemoryElizabethan iconographypangyriclosscultural amnesiapolitics
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Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England , pp. 218 - 234
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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