This is the first book to examine Elizabeth I's lasting impact on
the Anglo-American historical imagination. John Watkins attributes
her abiding popularity to her iconic role in seventeenth-century
debates over the nature of sovereignty. Watkins focuses on
England's most turbulent century because it witnessed the
consolidation of enduring attitudes toward both the Tudor past and
the English monarchy. He explains that seventeenth-century
representations of Elizabeth intersected with the period's wider
debate over the sovereign's relationship to the people. He goes on
to trace the development of Elizabeth's iconic significance as the
century moves on; the stories of Princess Elizabeth's sufferings
under Mary Tudor, or of her secret longings for Essex eventually
figured more prominently in the popular imagination than records of
her relationships with Parliament. By the early eighteenth century
Elizabeth had acquired a new value as a model of the tragic
individual pitted against a hostile social order.
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