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Link Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

Podcasts by Dr. Emma Smith (University of Oxford) on Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Includes ebooks of plays discussed.

Drama, Plays, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Jacobean, Analysis view
Document The Power behind the Pearl by Dana MacMillan

This article will focus on two sixteenth-century portraits of powerful men adorned with pearls, with both works connected by...

Elizabethan, Portraits, Colonialism view
Document Unica Semper Avis: The role of emblems in Elizabethan culture, using the Phoenix as a case study in Nicholas Hilliard’s Phoenix portrait and in the Chequers ring by Mariona Ponce Bochaca

The iconic image of Queen Elizabeth I was an essential part of her authority. The myth of the Virgin Queen was deliberately created to divert the...

Elizabeth I, Elizabethan, emblems, Nicholas Hilliard, phoenix, Early modern view
Document ‘The False Marke of the Shadow of Honour’: The significance of honour in late Elizabethan political culture by Adam Diaper

This article explores the potential, latent within late sixteenth-century discourses of honour, for political and moral dissidence. In a letter to...

Elizabethan, political culture, Early modern, Shakespeare view
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