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From: Jean R. Brink [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 6:52 PM
To: 'Sidney-Spenser Discussion List'
Subject: RE: questions about texts
I would like to second Donald Stump's recommendation of J. E. Neale. He
is very adulatory of Elizabeth, and he does not supply footnotes.
However, whenever I have gone to the state papers, the Cecil papers or
some other obvious source, I have found that he paraphrases the original
very closely. There is nothing wrong with celebrating the Elizabethan
period.
I would also like to recommend John Guy who seems to me to write well
and to have a lot to say.
Jean R. Brink
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From: Sidney-Spenser Discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Donald Stump
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 5:43 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: questions about texts
The really good biographies--Anne Somerset's is my favorite--are long
and not
cheap. I've had good luck using J.E. Neale with undergraduates. He's
wonderfully lively and engages students by stressing the many personal
and
political challenges that the Queen faced and overcame. He's a bit
dated, and
seems suspiciously celebratory to cynical age like our own, but he
teaches
well.
Donald Stump
Saint Louis University
Marianne F Micros wrote:
> Hi, everyone. I'd like to hear from people about which biographies of
> Elizabeth I they think are the best. Do you know if any of these are
> available in inexpensive paperback?
> Also, I have a vague memory that someone is preparing or has prepared
a
> new selected FQ. Is that true? Are they any editions of selections
from
> the FQ still in print?
> If you want a shock -- do a search on the FQ on Amazon.com. Page
after
> page of out-of-print books on Spenser!
> Thanks. Marianne Micros
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