September 22, 2000
Good Queen Bess, Powerful Sovereign and an Author, TooThe Doubt of Future Foes (circa 1571)
Three Renaissance scholars campaign to place Elizabeth I's writings in the literary canon
Her father had her mother beheaded. Parliament declared her a bastard. Her half sister locked her in the Tower of London on suspicion of treason. As queen, she survived smallpox, plots to kill her, and the Spanish Armada. If suffering produces great art, Elizabeth I had what it takes.
Despite being a prolific and eloquent writer, however, the queen has been
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