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This programme assesses the image of Queen Elizabeth I in portraiture and in art generally.
This programme assesses the image of Queen Elizabeth I in portraiture and in art generally.
| Module code and title: | A201, Renaissance and Reformation |
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| Item code: | A201; 15 |
| First transmission date: | 12-08-1972 |
| Published: | 1972 |
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| Duration: | 00:19:28 |
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| Producer: | Nuala O'Faolain |
| Contributor: | Cicely Palser Havely |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Elizabeth; Poetry; Portraiture |
| Footage description: | Cicely Havely introduces the programme. The image of Queen Elizabeth I, in portraiture and in the art's generally is to be assessed. Distinction is intentionally made between Gloriana and Queen Elizabeth I. Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I as a young girl. Cicely Havely describes the acclaim that met her accession to the throne. A Contemporary ballad is sung. Cicely Havely analyses the praise of which Elizabeth I was the subject. A Greville poem 'Under a throne I saw a virgin sit' is read. The armada portrait of Elizabeth is shown. Cicely Havely analyses a poem by Raleigh 'A beauty that can easily deceive' and a second, also by Raleigh 'from fruitful trees I gather withered leaves', in an attempt to define the nature of the affection that Elizabeth I aroused, Poem by Edmund BoIton is read, and analysedby Cicely Havely. She continues to analyse Elizabeth I's virginity and its symbolic value in the arts. Excerpt from Spenser's 'Faerie Queene' is given as an example. Various portraits are shown. Excerpts from Spencer's 'Faerie Queene' 3rd Book is chosen and read to serve as a further example of the devotion aroused by Elizabeth I. Cicely Havely links the phraseology and the conventions of the 'love' poetry addressed to Elizabeth to the Renaissance conventions then at their height in the literary arts. Further portraits of Elizabeth are shown. Two portraits of Elizabeth are shown and interpreted by Cicely Havely. Nashe's poem 'Autumme, I change thee' is read. Cicely Havely sums up the programme. The contemporary ballad 'Come over the borne Bessie...". is sung again. |
| Master spool number: | 6LT/70682 |
| Production number: | 00521_2329 |
| Videofinder number: | 2505 |
| Available to public: | no |
