Gloriana queen of england biography

          Sumptuously illustrated, Gloriana: Elizabeth I and the Art of Queenship tells the story of Elizabethan art as a powerful device for royal magnificence and....

          Elizabeth I, who reigned over Shakespeare's England and defeated the Spanish Armada, is familiar both from her portraits and as Gloriana, the Virgin Queen.

        1. Elizabeth I, who reigned over Shakespeare's England and defeated the Spanish Armada, is familiar both from her portraits and as Gloriana, the Virgin Queen.
        2. To examine the portraits of Elizabeth I is to witness the creation of the legend of the Virgin Queen, of Gloriana and her burgeoning empire.
        3. Sumptuously illustrated, Gloriana: Elizabeth I and the Art of Queenship tells the story of Elizabethan art as a powerful device for royal magnificence and.
        4. Growing up in loneliness her first twenty-five years, she ascended to the throne of England in and reigned 45 years.
        5. Known as the Virgin Queen, or Gloriana, her union with her people became a substitute for the marriage she never made.

          6. Gloriana

          opera by Benjamin Britten

          For other uses, see Gloriana (disambiguation).

          Gloriana, Op. 53, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten to an English libretto by William Plomer, based on Lytton Strachey's Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History.[1] The first performance was presented at the Royal Opera House, London, in during the celebrations of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

          Gloriana was the name given by the 16th-century poet Edmund Spenser to his character representing Queen Elizabeth I in his poem The Faerie Queene. It became the popular name given to Elizabeth I.

          The opera depicts the relationship between Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex, and was composed for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in June Several in the audience of its gala opening were disappointed by the opera, which presents the first Elizabeth as a sympathetic, but flawed, character motivated largely by vanity and desire.

          The premiere was one of Britten's few c