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Elizabeth I and Victoria  
The influence that each ruler had on the politics, mores, and literature of her time. Elizabeth's reign in a realm of male power. How Edmund Spenser's epic poem Faerie Queen uses allegory to depict Elizabeth and England. Portrayals of Elizabeth from William Shakespeare and Mary Sidney to the poet Anne Bradstreet. Biographies of Elizabeth, including the first biography by William Camden. Victoria's ability to be invisible in plain view and influence on the scholarship of her time. Representations of Victoria from Gilbert and Sullivan to Lewis Carroll to broadsides.
Program 38
  Participants
Katharine Maus
Adrienne Munich
Maureen Quilligan

 

 
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