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ANNA OF DENMARK QUEEN OF ENGLAND

Barroll Leeds

Oprawa:
TWARDA

Wydawca:
University of Pennsylvania Press Inc.

Data premiery:
2000-01-19

ISBN:
9780812235746

279,83 PLN
Wysyłamy w 21 dni

Opis produktu

In the wellentrenched 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 welldocumented 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 most productive and innovative periods of English cultural history./Married at seventeen Anna soon became a shrewd and powerful player in the court politics of Scotland and later England. Her influence can be seen in Jamess choices for advisors and beneficiaries of royal attention. In fact Jamess and Annas longstanding dispute over the raising of the heir Henry caused a major scandal of the time and was suspected as a plot against the kings safety. In order to assert her own power Anna actually forced a miscarriage upon herself an extraordinary event that is referred to in much unnoticed contemporary diplomatic correspondence./An important feature of court entertainment and literary production at this time was the development of the extravagant drama known as the masque which reached its literary peak in the works of Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones. Barroll argues that it was in fact Anna and not James who encouraged and staged the masques as a way of defining both a social and political identity for the royal consort a role that had been nonexistent under Elizabeth. Barrolls work on Annas patronage also sets Shakespeares company in a broader context. By writing the cultural biography of Anna of Denmark queen of England Leeds Barroll reestablishes the influential and distinctive role of the queen consort in early modern Europe./This cultural biography rescues Queen Anna from the shadow of King James I arguing that she sponsored many of the artistic endeavors at court in the innovative Jacobean period (e.g. the extravagant drama known as the masque) in her role as early modern queen consort. Leeds Barroll also delves into her relationship with Catholicism./The scholarship is impeccable the argument new and the case convincing. I am tempted to think that Barroll has here in effect invented a genre of cultural biography.&mdash:Catherine Belsey/Leeds Barroll is a ScholarinResidence at the Folger Shakespeare Library Washington D.C.

Data Publikacji: 2000-01-19
Wymiary: 229 mm 152 mm

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