Helen Hackett
Helen Hackett of University College London has published books on images of Elizabeth I, on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and on women as readers and writers of fiction in the English Renaissance. Her most recent book, Shakespeare and Elizabeth: The Meeting of Two Myths, is about the afterlives of the playwright and the Queen as cultural icons, and the many ways in which their mythologies have intertwined.
Books by Helen Hackett
Interviews with Helen Hackett
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Elizabeth I
by David Starkey and Susan Doran -
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The Faerie Queene
by edited by Thomas P Roche Jr and C Patrick O’Donnell Jr & Edmund Spenser -
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Translations by Elizabeth I, 1592-98
by Janel Mueller and Joshua Scodel -
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Rewriting the Renaissance
by Margaret W Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan and Nancy Vickers -
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Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England
by John A Watkins
The best books on Elizabeth I, recommended by Helen Hackett
The best books on Elizabeth I, recommended by Helen Hackett
University College London professor Helen Hackett selects five books on the Virgin Queen, including one by the monarch herself. “You get a sense of her independence of mind. She does her own thing”
