). Shakespeare’s representations of girl characters were both creative inventions and depictions of historical girls such as Queen Elizabeth I, to a discussion of whom I will return presently. These characters were distinct from boys, daughters, and women; often
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The poem is paradoxical and elusive of any specific meaning. Perhaps it alludes to Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex, 10 especially in view of the fact that the queen has been symbolically associated with the phoenix in King Henry VIII . At the
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I with M. de St Antoine (1633), Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2020. Figure 2. Anthony Van Dyck, Equestrian Portrait of Charles I (c. 1637–1638), © The National Gallery, London. The Scene, Arcadia Pan
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the letter of Queen Elizabeth regarding permission for trade in India, John Mildenhall was another merchant who reached India around 1600, and William Hawkins was the lieutenant general of the ship Hector sent to India by the East India Company in
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as nostalgic reminiscences. 17 And while it may well be a stretch to surmise, as some critics have done, that Shakespeare here cryptically addressed Queen Elizabeth’s hidden sympathy with English Catholics in order to invoke her merciful intervention
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. Carroll (Houndmills, Basingstoke & London: Macmillan Press, 1999)) highlights the fact that ‘the play has particular significance in reference to King James I, who had, as King James VI of Scotland, succeeded to the English throne upon the death of Queen
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ultimately accepted chemical castration in order to avoid prison time, but took his own life two years later in 1954. It was not until 2013 (long after Britain's antisodomy laws had been repealed) that Turing finally received a posthumous pardon from Queen
Andrew Sanders
dynasty was about to be extinguished on the death of Queen Elizabeth. This is why Hamlet is insistent that Horatio ‘absents’ himself from ‘felicity’ – that is, that he must temporarily resolve not to follow Hamlet in committing suicide (in the antique
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illustration, she looks closely at English efforts to undermine kinship ties between Irish chieftains, and in particular the fraught negotiations between Irish rebel Hugh O’Neill and representatives of Queen Elizabeth. As in 2 Henry IV , the royal emissaries