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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1047781364 Title: Elizabeth I, the subversion of flattery, and John Lyly's court plays and entertainments Author: Theodora A Jankowski Publisher: Kalamazoo, MI : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, [2018] ISBN/ISSN: 9781580443333 1580443338 OCLC:1047781364

  
  

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Elizabeth I, the subversion of flattery, and John Lyly's court plays and entertainments

Author:	Theodora A Jankowski
Publisher:	Kalamazoo, MI : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, [2018]
Series:	Late Tudor and Stuart drama.
Edition/Format:	Print book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"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"--  Read more...
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Subjects	Lyly, John, -- 1554?-1606 -- Characters -- Queens. Elizabeth -- I, -- Queen of England, -- 1533-1603 -- In literature. Queens in literature. View all subjects
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