Shakespeare and Elizabeth: The Meeting of Two Myths

by Helen Hackett

Did William Shakespeare ever meet Queen Elizabeth I? There is no evidence of such a meeting, yet for three centuries writers and artists have been provoked and inspired to imagine it. Shakespeare and Elizabeth is the first book to explore the rich history of invented encounters between the poet and the Queen, and examines how and why the mythology of these two charismatic and enduring cultural icons has been intertwined in British and American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691128065
• ISBN13: 9780691128061
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"