At 12:28 PM 9/20/2002 -0400, you 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?
I've used Jasper Ridley's _Elizabeth I: The Shrewdness of Virtue_ (1989) in
conjunction with the Cate Blanchett film by Shekhar Kapur. Unfortunately,
Ridley seems to be out of print at present... I liked it, though, for two
reasons: (a) it seeks balanced on a subject that tends to polarize
biographers and (b) it takes the religious dimension of Elizabeth's life
seriously.
>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?
There is an Everyman selection, which modernizes the spelling and ruins the
meter.
I've used the Norton Critical Edition of _Edmund Spenser's Poetry_ for a
little over three years now. The selections are smart (all of books 1, 3,
and 7, with goodly chunks from the remaining books) and the notes are, at
least in my experience, pitched at just the right level for undergraduates.
Have also used this ed. for SC and CCCHA, with good results.
If someone is interested in editing a new selection, please email me know
privately; I may (may, may) be able to put you in touch with a publisher.
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