The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.0352 Tuesday, 25 April 2006
[1] From: Jennifer Clement <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 24 Apr 2006 11:56:19 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0344 Elizabeth I Questions
[2] From: Tom Bishop <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 24 Apr 2006 14:58:02 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0344 Elizabeth I Questions
[3] From: Peter Bridgman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 25 Apr 2006 01:10:09 +0100
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0344 Elizabeth I Questions
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From: Jennifer Clement <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 24 Apr 2006 11:56:19 -0500
Subject: 17.0344 Elizabeth I Questions
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0344 Elizabeth I Questions
Elizabeth was also a published author, and many of her works have been
collected in the 2000 volume Elizabeth I: Collected Works, edited by
Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose. Though it's hard to
say exactly how well-known her writing was in her own time, George
Puttenham considered her one of the best poets of the day -- and though
we can't discount flattery, she does seem to have been an accomplished
poet, speechwriter, and devotional writer.
Jennifer Clement
Vanderbilt University
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From: Tom Bishop <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 24 Apr 2006 14:58:02 -0400
Subject: 17.0344 Elizabeth I Questions
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0344 Elizabeth I Questions
Kevin De Ornellas <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
>>There are no recent biographies of Whitgift that I know of.
>
>Doesn't the very substantial piece on Whitgift by William
>Joseph Sheils in 2004's 'Oxford Dictionary of National
>Biography' (www.oxforddnb.com - if your institution subscribes)
>count as a 'recent biography'?
Fair enough. But still, it's not the full-scale rollout of, say,
MacCulloch's recent biography of Cranmer.
Tom
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From: Peter Bridgman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 25 Apr 2006 01:10:09 +0100
Subject: 17.0344 Elizabeth I Questions
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0344 Elizabeth I Questions
Donna Lodge writes ...
>I'm intrigued by your observation that the "sacramental closeness
>of confession" was lost/denied once Elizabeth broke ties with the
>Pope. I had not thought of the profound impact this very specific
>and central tenant of Catholicism - repentance, forgiveness and
>thus the possibility to entrance to heaven - would have had on the
>Catholic population.
As the majority of the population went to confession just once a year in
holy week (their "Easter duty"), they would've only partaken in the
sacrament five times during Mary's reign before its ban again on
Elizabeth's succession. The "profound impact" of removing confession
was of course the great fear of dying without death-bed confession
("dis-appointed")...
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
Unhouseled, dis-appointed, unaneled,
No reck'ning made, but sent to my account
With all my imperfections on my head.
O horrible, O horrible, most horrible!
Peter Bridgman
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