Elizabeth I, the Subversion of Flattery, and John Lyly's Court Plays and Entertainments

von Theodora A. Jankowski

175 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This study considers how John Lyly's characters who are allegorical representations of Elizabeth validate the queen, but at the same time raise troubling issues as to her true nature. Theodora Jankowski looks at both the light and the dark side of the Elizabeth character in each of Lyly's court plays, while at the same time considering how that allegory works in terms of the various issues Lyly debates within the plays. She reveals the fraught nature of John Lyly's relationship to Queen Elizabeth. He was not the first creative artist to introduce subversive undercurrents in entertainments designed to flatter the queen. However, Jankowski demonstrates how Lyly, while praising the queen and accepting her beneficence, simultaneously manages to present his audiences with the "dark queen", the opposite side of the positive image of the Queen of England.

• Reihe: Medieval Institute Publications
• ISBN: 9781580443333
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2018
• Größe: 229 x 153 mm
• Verlag: ISD International - IPSUK