Readings and Resources
- Books, Videos, and more at SCSU
- Exhibit Guide for Kids (pdf)
- Films featuring Elizabeth I
- Queen Elizabeth on the Web
Books, Videos, and more at SCSU
Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend Exhibit Books and Videos available at SCSU Library (RefShare). Search or browse through the 150+ items and create a bibliography. Also check out the LibraryThing catalog.
- Suggested Reading from the Newberry Library
http://www3.newberry.org/elizabeth/resources/suggestedreading.html - University of Waterloo
http://www.english.uwaterloo.ca/courses/engl710b/ElizI.html - Tudor Portraits
http://www.tudor-portraits.com/Bibliography.htm
Films featuring Elizabeth I
- Virgin Queen (1923)
- Fire over England (1937)
- Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
- The Sea Hawk (1940)
- Young Bess (1953)
- Virgin Queen (1955)
- Elizabeth R (1971)
- Shakespeare in Love (1998)
- Elizabeth (1998)
- Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (2004)
- Elizabeth I (2005)
Queen Elizabeth I on the Web
Queen Elizabeth I
- Elizabeth I http://englishhistory.net/tudor/monarchs/eliz1.html
- Queen Elizabeth Gallery http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/queen_elizabeth_gallery.htm
- Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) http://elizabethi.org/
- Elizabeth I www.luminarium.org/renlit/eliza.htm
- Elizabeth I http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/state/monarchs_leaders/elizabeth_i_01.shtml
- Elizabeth’s Pirates http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/pirates/index.html
- Modern History Sourcebook: Queen Elizabeth I of England, Selected Writings and Speeches http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/elizabeth1.htm
- Elizabeth I and Politics: The Views of Historians http://www.johnguy.co.uk/history.php?&content=elizpol.html
- Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots http://www.johnguy.co.uk/history.php?&content=elizmary.html
- Queen Elizabeth by Edward Spencer Beesly, published in London by Macmillan and Co., 1892. http://englishhistory.net/tudor/beeslychapterone.html
- Queen Elizabeth by Jacob Abbott, published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1902. http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=abbott&book=elizabeth&story=_contents
- Tudor England http://englishhistory.net/tudor/contents.html
- Tudor England http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Tudor_index.htm
- Tudor History http://tudorhistory.org/
- Life in Elizabethan England http://www.renaissance.dm.net/compendium/index.html
- Elizabethan England http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/elizabethanengland.html
- Primary Sources: Eyewitness Accounts of People and Events in Tudor England; Letters, Journals, etc. http://englishhistory.net/tudor/primary.html
- Elizabethan Costuming Page http://costume.dm.net/
- Medieval & Renaissance Costume Images http://www.marquise.de/en/1500/index.shtml
- History in Focus: Elizabeth I and James VI and I http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Elizabeth/index.html
- Tudor Poems: An On-line Anthology http://www.users.muohio.edu/clarkjd/poemsite.html
- Elizabethan Sonneteers http://www.sonnets.org/eliz.htm
- 16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603) http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/
- Renaissance Secrets: Conspiring Against the Queen http://www.open2.net/renaissance2/doing/conspire.html
- Folger Shakespeare Library http://www.folger.edu/index.cfm
- Shakespeare Birthplace Trust http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/
- Internet Shakespeare Editions http://ise.uvic.ca/index.html
- Shakespeare: A Magazine for Teachers and Enthusiasts http://www.shakespearemag.com/
- Shakespeare Illustrated http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Shakespeare.html
- Shakespeare in Quarto from the British Library http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html
- Exhibit Guide for Kids (pdf)
- Tudor Costume http://www.historyonthenet.com/Tudors/tudor_costume.htm
- How successfully did Elizabeth I deal with the problems of her reign? http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/lessons/elizabethi_end/index.htm
- Elizabeth I Online Lesson http://historyonthenet.com/Lessons/elizabeth1/eliz1main.htm
- Elizabethan propaganda: How did the English Government try to show that the Spanish were threatening to invade England in 1588? http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/snapshots/snapshot45/snapshot45.htm
- The Tudors http://www.tudorbritain.org/
- The Royal Seal: What can it tell us? http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/snapshots/snapshot01/snapshot1.htm
- Office Site of the British Monarchy http://www.royal.gov.uk./output/Page1.asp
- The Marlow Society Homepage http://www.marlowe-society.org
- Union of the Crowns 1603-2003 http://www.unionofthecrowns.com/
Have a suggestion of a book or video about Elizabeth to add to the SCSU Library? Email jcpeterson@stcloudstate.edu