Centre for the Study of the Renaissance

Renaissance

Dr Elizabeth Goldring. M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (Yale)

Associate Fellow, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance.

e-mail: e.goldring@warwick.ac.uk

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century court culture
  • Festival studies
  • England and the Continental Renaissance
  • Literature and the visual arts
  • Portraiture and biography
  • The reception of Elizabethan literature and art in the eighteenth century

 

CURRENT PROJECTS

Book: Painting and Patronage at the Elizabethan Court: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and his World  

 

BOOKS IN PRINT AND FORTHCOMING

General Editor, John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming), 5 vols

Co-Editor, The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011)

Co-Editor, The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) [Long-listed for the 2007 William MB Berger Prize for British Art History]

Associate General Editor, Europa Triumphans: Court and Civic Festivals in Early Modern Europe (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2004), 2 vols

Co-Editor, Court Festivals of the European Renaissance: Art, Politics and Performance (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2002)

Co-Editor, James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes, vol. 2: 1766-1776 (New Haven and London/Edinburgh: Yale University Press/Edinburgh University Press, 1998)

 

SELECTED ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

'Patronage and Collecting in Shakespeare's England,' in The Age of Shakespeare, edited by R. Malcolm Smuts (publication details to be confirmed).

'Shows and Pageants in Holinshed's Chronicles' (with Jayne Archer), in The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed, edited by Ian Archer, Felicity Heal, and Paulina Kewes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

'Princely Pleasures: The Cultural Patronage of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester,' in 'Worthy to be Called Paradise': Re-creating the Elizabethan Garden at Kenilworth Castle, edited by Anna Keay and John Watkins (London: English Heritage, forthcoming).

'The Langham Letter as a Source for Garden History,' in 'Worthy to be Called Paradise': Re-creating the Elizabethan Garden at Kenilworth Castle, edited by Anna Keay and John Watkins (London: English Heritage, forthcoming).

'The Politics of Translation: Arthur Golding's Account of the Duke of Anjou's Entry into Antwerp (1582),' in Writing Entries in Early Modern Europe, edited by Jean Andrews, Marie-Claude Canova-Green, and Marie-France Wagner (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming).

'The John Nichols Project' (with Jayne Archer), in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, forthcoming

'Gascoigne and Kenilworth: The Production, Reception, and Afterlife of The Princely Pleasures,' in New Essays on George Gascoigne, edited by Gillian Austen (New York: AMS Press, forthcoming).

'The Art, Architecture, and Gardens of the Early Modern Inns of Court,' in The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court, edited by Jayne Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, and Sarah Knight (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011), pp. 127-37.

‘“A mercer ye wot az we be”: The Authorship of the Kenilworth Letter Reconsidered’, ELR: English Literary Renaissance, 38.2 (2008), pp. 245-69.

‘“So iust a sorrowe so well expressed”: Henry, Prince of Wales and the Art of Commemoration’, in Prince Henry Reviv’d: Image and Exemplarity in Early Modern England, edited by Timothy Wilks (London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2007), pp. 280-300.

'The Earl of Leicester's Inventory of Kenilworth Castle, c. 1578,' English Heritage Historical Review, 2 (2007), pp. 36-59.

‘“In the cause of his God and true religion”: Sir Philip Sidney, the Sequitur celebritas and the Cult of the Protestant Martyr’, in Art Re-formed: Re-assessing the Impact of the Reformation on the Visual Arts, edited by Tara Hamling and Richard L. Williams (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), pp. 227-42.

‘Portraiture, Patronage and the Progresses: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the Kenilworth Festivities of 1575’, in The Progresses, Pageants and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I, edited by Jayne Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, and Sarah Knight (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 163-88.

‘Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester for Kenilworth Castle’, The Burlington Magazine, 148 (2005), pp. 654-60.

‘“So lively a portraiture of his miseries”: Melancholy, Mourning and the Elizabethan Malady’, The British Art Journal, 6.2 (2005), pp. 12-22.

‘The Earl of Leicester and Portraits of the duc d’Alençon’, The Burlington Magazine, 146 (2004), pp. 108-11.

‘The Funeral of Sir Philip Sidney and the Politics of Elizabethan Festival’, in Court Festivals of the European Renaissance: Art, Politics and Performance, edited by J. R. Mulryne and Elizabeth Goldring (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2002), pp. 199-224.

‘An Important Early Picture Collection: The Earl of Pembroke’s 1561/2 Inventory and the Provenance of Holbein’s Christina of Denmark’, The Burlington Magazine, 144 (2002), pp. 157-60. 

 

EDITIONS

In John Nichols’s The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources, edited by Jayne Archer, Elizabeth Clarke, and Elizabeth Goldring, 5 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming):

  • George Gascoigne’s Princeley Pleasures at the Courte at Kenelwoorth
  • Robert Langham’s Letter Whearin, part of the entertainment untoo the Queenz Majesty, at Killingworth Castl, ... iz signified
  • Sir Philip Sidney’s Lady of May
  • (with Jayne Archer) Gabriel Harvey's Gratulationes Valdinenses
  • (with David Parrott) Henry Goldwell’s Briefe Declaration of the Shews, Deuices, Speeches, and Inuentions, done & performed before the Queenes Maiestie, & the French Ambassadours (also known as The Four Foster Children of Desire)
  • (with David Parrott) Arthur Golding’s Ioyful and Royal Entertainment of the Ryght High and Mightie Prince Frauncis ... Duke of Brabande, Aniow, Alaunson, &c. into his Noble Citie of Antwerpe
  • Thomas Lant and Theodor De Bry’s Sequitur celebritas et pompa funeris

 

ENCYCLOPAEDIA ENTRIES

'Triumphal Entries' (with Jayne Archer), in The Cambridge World Shakespeare Encyclopaedia, edited by Bruce Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)

In The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004):

  • Best, Charles (fl. 1602-1611)
  • Bradshaw, Thomas (fl. 1591)
  • Brandon, Samuel (fl. 1598)
  • Clerke, William (fl. 1575-1595)
  • Cox, Capt. (fl. 1575)
  • Drout, John (fl. 1570)
  • Elderton, William (d. ?1592)
  • Elviden, Edmund (fl. 1569-1570)
  • Fowler, Abraham (fl. 1568-1576)
  • Gibbon, Charles (fl. 1589-1604)
  • Gifford, Humphrey (fl. 1580)
  • Hawes, Edward (fl. 1606-1607)
  • Lee, Cromwell (d. 1601)
  • Nicholson, Samuel (fl. 1600-1602)
  • Smalle, Peter (fl. 1596-1615)
  • Talbot, Elizabeth (?1527-1608), Countess of Shrewsbury, known as ‘Bess of Hardwick’
  • Talbot, George (1528-1590), sixth Earl of Shrewsbury
  • Warren, William (fl. 1578-1581)
  • Woodhouse, Peter (fl. 1605)

 

MISCELLANEOUS

Advisor to English Heritage

Member of the Consultative Committee of The Burlington Magazine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Page contact: Elizabeth Goldring Last revised: Thu 9 Feb 2012
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