Elizabeth I: The Voice of a Monarch

by Ilona Bell

Book Overview

This book focuses on the ways in which Elizabeth represented herself in her own words, especially in speeches, reported conversations, and private poems from the first half of her reign when she was simultaneously establishing her political authority and negotiating marriage at home and abroad. Although Elizabeth's novel and unprecedented art of courtship garnered considerable resistance and disapproval, by the end of her reign it had sparked or merged...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230621066
• ISBN13: 9780230621060
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.1"