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  • Chapter 11 - The Many Labours of Mourning a Virgin Queen

  • from Part III - The Ends of Commemoration
  • Edited by William E. Engel, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, Rory Loughnane, University of Kent, Canterbury, Grant Williams, Carleton University, Ottawa
  • Book:
    Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England
    Published online:
    06 October 2022
    Print publication:
    13 October 2022, pp 218-234

  • Summary

    The chapter concentrates upon the wealth of early modern responses to the demise of Elizabeth I in 1603. Particular attention is played to the Petrarchan discourse of eternizing, the memorialization of the last Tudor monarch in her own lifetime, and the scriptural and mythological associations which shaped the early modern reception of Elizabeth. The continuities between textual and artistic productions during the period are explored with reference to Elizabethan iconography and there is sustained analysis in this context of published miscellanies mourning the queen shortly after her death. The discussion concludes with a consideration of how dynastic change and the strategic deployment of cultural amnesia also influenced the age’s evocation of Elizabeth in the decades after her passing.