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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Mary Queen of Scots"”.
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"Your Most Affectionate Good Sister": Rhetoric, Diplomacy and Self-Presentation in the Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots
This research essay examines letters of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, showing her as an accomplished rhetorician. Mary's letters have gone largely unexamined by scholars, despite the new interest in the writing of women in the early modern period. On her letters she used appeals to kinship, …
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Representations of Elizabeth I
… to examine some contemporary representations of Elizabeth I. Beginning with an outline of how the queen struggled to construct her feminine power within and beyond dominant patriarchal discourse, I go on to explore closely three modern filmic treatments of the queen: The Virgin Queen (1955), …
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Elizabeth Tudor: Reconciling Femininity And Authority
… societal ideology questioned the authority of a female monarch. Religious opposition to a woman ruler was based on biblical precedent, which reflected the general attitude that women were inferior to men. Elizabeth's dilemma was reconciling her femininity with her sovereignty, most notably …
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Ideology and diplomacy: the impact of reformed religion on foreign policy and diplomatic practice in the first decade of Elizabeth I
… dissertation examines the ideological attitudes of Elizabeth’s servants on issues of foreign policy and to examine the relationship between stated ideological goals and foreign policy. The conclusion drawn from this examination is that the men who served Elizabeth shared a basic set of Protestant …
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English Catholic Eschatology, 1558 - 1603.
… Protestants had an eschatological understanding of the present. This thesis seeks to balance the picture and the sources indicate that there was an early modern English Catholic counter narrative. This thesis suggests that the Catholic eschatological understanding of contemporary events affected …
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Beyond the "Year of Song": Text and Music in the Song Cycles of Robert Schumann after 1848
… to re-evaluate the works, writings, and life of Robert Schumann (1810-1856). One of the primary issues in this ongoing re-evaluation is a reassessment of the composer's late works (roughly defined as those written after 1845). Until recently, the last eight years of Schumann's creative life …
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The foundation of the French influence in Scotland during the pre-regency of Mary of Guise-Lorraine, 1547-1554
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English printed drama in collection before Jonson and Shakespeare
… Tragedies (1623) overwhelmingly dominate studies of the English drama collection. This critical focus has revealed much of what we know about the collection as a format for dramatic texts in early modern England, but it has also concealed aspects of the format’s history. Scholars regularly assume …