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History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699

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This textbook provides an overview of the long reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603), a highly significant female ruler in a time of great change. It offers an accessible yet detailed survey of the events of her life and reign, followed by thematic chapters exploring key aspects of her time in power and the wider context of politics, culture and society in early modern England. Topics covered range from the composition of the queen's Privy Council; the 'Other' in Elizabethan England; assassination attempts; friendship; entertainment; and dreams. Gathering a great deal of cutting-edge and original research from one of the foremost scholars of Elizabeth's reign, this book is an essential companion for students and a crucial reference work for researchers. .

Politics --- History of civilization --- History --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- History of Eastern Europe --- History of Europe --- nieuwste tijd --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- geschiedenis --- politiek --- wereldpolitiek --- Europese geschiedenis --- nieuwe tijd --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- Europe --- Great Britain --- Civilization --- World politics. --- Women --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- History of Early Modern Europe. --- Cultural History. --- Political History. --- Women's History / History of Gender. --- History. --- 1492-.

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In Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based professional theater preeminently associated with William Shakespeare and an unprecedented European experience of geographic, social, and intellectual mobility. Shakespeare's plays bear the marks of exile and exploration, rural depopulation, urban expansion, and shifting mercantile and diplomatic configurations. He fills his plays with characters testing the limits of personal identity: foreigners, usurpers, outcasts, outlaws, scolds, shrews, witches, mercenaries, and cross-dressers.Through parallel discussions of Henry VI, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice, Levin and Watkins argue that Shakespeare's centrality to English national consciousness is inseparable from his creation of the foreign as a category asserting dangerous affinities between England's internal minorities and its competitors within an increasingly fraught European mercantile system.As a women's historian, Levin is particularly interested in Shakespeare's responses to marginalized sectors of English society. As a scholar of English, Italian Studies, and Medieval Studies, Watkins situates Shakespeare in the context of broadly European historical movements. Together Levin and Watkins narrate the emergence of the foreign as portable category that might be applied both to "strangers" from other countries and to native-born English men and women, such as religious dissidents, who resisted conformity to an increasingly narrow sense of English identity. Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds will appeal to historians, literary scholars, theater specialists, and anyone interested in Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Age.

Literature and history --- Noncitizens in literature. --- National characteristics in literature. --- National characteristics, English, in literature. --- Group identity in literature. --- Characters and characteristics in literature. --- Character sketches --- Characterization (Literature) --- Literary characters --- Literary portraits --- Portraits, Literary --- History --- History and criticism --- Shakespeare, William, --- Characters. --- Shakespeare, William --- Aliens in literature --- Illegal aliens in literature --- Aliens in literature.

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