Elizabeth's fruitless crown: Ovidian poetry, the end of Tudor genealogy, and the incomplete past

This dissertation asks to what end were so many Ovidian poems written during the last fifteen years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Arguing that the poems have a distinct political subtext, this study situates the poetry within the context of Elizabeth's unsettled succession. The fraught quest...

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Main Author: Petersen, Kevin
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2012
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3518408