Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography

by Leeds Barroll

In the well-entrenched critical view of the Jacobean period, James I is credited with the flowering of culture in the early years of the seventeenth century. His queen, Anna of Denmark, is seen as a shadowy figure at best, a capricious and shallow one at worst. But Leeds Barroll makes a well-documented case that it was Anna who, for her own purposes, developed an alternative court and sponsored many of the other artistic ventures in one of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812235746
• ISBN13: 9780812235746
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"