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Elizabeth I: The Competition for Representation | 
 enlarge | Author: Susan Frye
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 690188
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0195113837
Dewey Decimal Number: 941
EAN: 9780195113839
ASIN: 0195113837
Publication Date: November 28, 1996
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Elizabeth I is perhaps the most visible woman in early modern Europe, yet little attention has been paid to what she said about the difficulties of constructing her power in a patriarchal society. This revisionist study examines her struggle for authority through the representation of her female body. Based on a variety of extant historical and literary materials, Frye's interpretation focuses on three representational crises spaced fifteen years apart: the London coronation of 1559, the Kenilworth entertainments of 1575, and the publication of The Faerie Queene in 1590.
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An exciting look at Elizabeth's courtiers as critics. November 14, 2000
Frye's study of Elizabeth's struggle to control her iconography and representation is very powerful. She discusses three major events in the course of Elizabeth's reign, and how merchants, courtiers and poets represented Elizabeth through them: praising her glory and virtue, yet simultaneously taking the critical liberties of a patriarchal society over a woman. Frye's third chapter on "Engendered Violence" is especially revealing, whether or not we can fully accept the extremity of such criticism in the character of Britomart in Spenser's Faerie Queene. This book is wonderful, a necessary read for anyone interested in the force of gender in the Renaissance.
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