Spectacular Performances: Essays on Theatre, Imagery, Books, and Selves in Early Modern England

by StephenOrgel (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $93.45

  Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James? This title includes essays that deal with Shakespeare, Jonson and Milton, with Renaissance magic and Renaissance costume.