Guest Bio
Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History Emerita at the University of Nebraska. She specializes in early modern English history. She is the author or editor of twenty books, most recently The Reign and Life of Queen Elizabeth I: Politics, Culture, and Society (2022). She has held fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Newberry Library, where she was also the Historical Consultant for the Queen Elizabeth exhibit. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of York. She co-edits the series, Queenship and Power, for Palgrave and the New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture for Routledge. Her play about Queen Elizabeth I, To Speak or Use Silence, was performed in St. Louis in June 2023.
Carole’s Tudor Takeaway
Queen Elizabeth I: To Speak or Use Silence, a play by Carole Levin
Natalie Grueninger speaks with Carole Levin about the reign and life of Elizabeth I.
Tune in to hear Natalie and Carole discuss:
– The function of Elizabeth’s Privy Council and the men she most trusted
– The role of foreign ambassadors and their relationship with the queen
– Plots and assassination attempts
– Elizabeth’s favourite women
– Dreaming Elizabeth
– Rumours about the queen
– Cultural diversity in Elizabethan England
– The queen’s pleasures and pastimes
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