Volume 48, Number 6 · April 12, 2001
But Could She Cook?
By Frank Kermode
Elizabeth I: Collected Works
edited by Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose
University of Chicago Press, 446 pp., $40.00
This mistitled book contains a 'generous selection' of Queen Elizabeth's letters, speeches, poems, and prayers. It does not include her translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy and other surviving translations, arguing that they are already available to scholars 'in fairly convenient forms.' Yet the present volume is intended not for scholars but for a more general public that needs its Latin, French, and Italian translated and its English modernized and glossed when obsolete. The needs of the erudite will be met by a companion volume, not yet published, giving the texts in their original languages and spelling.
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