TEXT PRINT CULTURE| Elizabeth I: Memory and Mortality

This lecture will be co-hosted by the Literature Team of the School of Foreign Studies and the SUFE Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture

 讲座摘要/ Abstract 

This presentation will focus upon the ways in which the final Tudor monarch was commemorated not only on the occasion of her passing in 1603, but during the length of her forty-five-year reign. Attention will be paid to the diverse responses to the political achievements of the Virgin Queen in the print culture of the period as well as in the artistic output of successive generations of painters and engravers. Examples from parliamentary addresses and correspondence will also offer unexpected insights into the ongoing debate in the second half of the sixteenth century concerning the questions of governance and succession shaped by a woman who would bring the Tudor dynasty to a close on the English throne.

 主讲人简介/ CV 

Andrew Hiscock is Professor in Early Modern Literature and Dean of Postgraduate Research at Bangor University, as well as Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Institut de Recherche sur la Renaissance, l’Age Classique et les Lumières, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier III. He is the general editor of The Year’s Work in English Studies and editor for English and American literature of the A&HCI journal, Modern Language Review. He is a leading authority on Shakespeare and the author of Authority and Desire: Crises of Interpretation in Shakespeare and Racine (Lang, 1996), The Uses of this World: Thinking Space in Shakespeare, Marlowe, Cary, and Jonson (University of Wales Press, 2004), and Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2011), as well as the editor of numerous volumes, including The Shakespeare Handbook (Bloomsbury, 2015, co-edited with Stephen Longstaffe) and The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion (Oxford University Press, 2017, co-edited with Helen Wilcox).