Essex: The Cultural Impact of an Elizabethan Courtier by Annaliese Connolly (Eng For Sale

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Essex by Annaliese Connolly, Lisa Hopkins

Collection of new essays about the earl of Essex, one of the most important figures of the Elizabethan court

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This collection of new essays about the earl of Essex, one of the most important figures of the Elizabethan court, resituates his life and career within the richly diverse contours of his cultural and political milieu. It identifies the ways in which his biography has been variously interpreted both during his own lifetime and since his death in 1601. Collectively, the essays examine a wealth of diverse visual and textual manifestations of Essex: poems, portraits, films; texts produced by Essex himself, including private letters, prose tracts, poems and entertainments; and the transmission and circulation of these as a means of disseminating his political well as prising open long-held assumptions about the earl's life, the authors provide a diachronic approach to the earl's career, identifying crucial events such as the Irish campaign and the uprising, and re-evaluating their significance and critical reception. Collectively, the essays illuminate the reach and significance of the many roles played by the earl and the impact of his brief, dazzling life on his contemporaries and on those who came after, making this the first volume to offer a comprehensive critical overview of the Earl's life and influence. -- .

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This collection of new essays about the Second Earl of Essex, one of the most important figures of the Elizabethan court, resituates his life and career within the richly diverse contours of his cultural and political milieu. It identifies the ways in which his biography has been variously interpreted both during his own lifetime and since his death in 1601. Collectively, the essays examine a wealth of diverse visual and textual manifestations of Essex: poems, portraits, films; texts produced by Essex himself, including private letters, prose tracts, poems and entertainments; and the transmission and circulation of these as a means of disseminating his political views. As well as prising open long-held assumptions about the earl's life, the authors provide a diachronic approach to the earl's career, identifying crucial events such as the Irish campaign and the uprising, and re-evaluating their significance and critical reception. Collectively, the essays illuminate the reach and significance of the many roles played by the earl and the impact of his brief, dazzling life on his contemporaries and on those who came after, making this the first volume to offer a comprehensive critical overview of the Earl's life and influence.

Table of Contents

Introduction
I Essex: Patron and patronage
1. 'Cleverly playing the stoic': the Earl of Essex, Sir Philip Sidney and surviving Elizabeth's court – Richard Wood
2. Essexianism and the work of Gervase Markham – Matthew Steggle
3. Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, and the practice of theatre – Grace Ioppolo
4. Essex's international agenda in 1595 and his device of the Indian prince – Linda Shenk
II Self-fashioning
5. 'Achilles alter': the heroic lives and afterlives of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex – Andrew Hiscock
6. 'Bringing rebellion broached on his sword': Essex and Ireland – Willy Maley and Chris Butler
7. Essex's last campaign: the fall of the Earl of Essex and manuscript circulation – Andrew Gordon
8. 'Idle papers': an apology of the Earl of Essex – Hugh Gazzard
9. 'Toucht with bolt of treason': the Earl of Essex and Lady Penelope Rich – Chris Laoutaris
10. The Earl of Essex and 'politic history' – Alexandra Gajda
III Afterlives
11. Prodigality and the Earl of Essex – Mary Partridge
12. The Earl of Essex and the Duke of Windsor: Elizabeth and Essex on film – Lisa Hopkins
Bibliography
Index

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This collection of new essays about the earl of Essex, one of the most important figures of the Elizabethan court, resituates his life and career within the richly diverse contours of his cultural and political milieu. It identifies the ways in which his biography has been variously interpreted both during his own lifetime and since his death in 1601. Collectively, the essays examine a wealth of diverse visual and textual manifestations of Essex: poems, portraits, films; texts produced by Essex himself, including private letters, prose tracts, poems and entertainments; and the transmission and circulation of these as a means of disseminating his political views. As well as prising open long-held assumptions about the earl's life, the authors provide a diachronic approach to the earl's career, identifying crucial events such as the Irish campaign and the uprising, and re-evaluating their significance and critical reception. Collectively, the essays illuminate the reach and significance of the many roles played by the earl and the impact of his brief, dazzling life on his contemporaries and on those who came after, making this the first volume to offer a comprehensive critical overview of the Earl's life and influence.

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Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, was one of Queen Elizabeth I's favourites, and has been connected to Shakespeare at two significant juncturesThe authors identify the ways in which his biography has been variously interpreted both during his own lifetime and since his death in 1601Utilises a wealth of diverse visual and textual manifestations of Essex produced during the sixteenth century and up to the present dayMakes use of developments in critical theory and practice over the last thirty years to construct a new historiography

Details ISBN0719084946 Publisher Manchester University Press Year 2013 ISBN-10 0719084946 ISBN-13 9780719084942 Format Hardcover Imprint Manchester University Press Subtitle The Cultural Impact of an Elizabethan Courtier Place of Publication Manchester Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Lisa Hopkins Birth 1962 DEWEY 942.055092 Short Title ESSEX Language English Media Book Author Lisa Hopkins Pages 336 Publication Date 2013-10-31 UK Release Date 2013-10-31 NZ Release Date 2013-10-31 Illustrations Illustrations, black & white Audience General AU Release Date 2013-10-30 Country of Origin GB Product Class Description Literary Criticism
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