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Article: Queenship and Political Discourse in the Elizabethan Realms.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- September 22, 2006
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Natalie Mears. Queenship and Political Discourse in the Elizabethan Realms.
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. vi + 306 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $85. ISBN: 0-521-81922-9.
Mears began this book, which is a revised dissertation completed under John Guy's direction, to determine whether Jurgen Habermas's theory of the public sphere could be applied to Elizabethan England; as part of her research agenda she also assesses the privy council's role at court and critiques feminist scholarship. This diversity lends the book a somewhat disjointed structure.
Habermas theorized that a ...