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"I My Self": Queen Elizabeth I's Oration at Tilbury Camp Author(s): Janet M. Green Source: The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 421-445 Published by: The Sixteenth Century Journal Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2543451 . Accessed: 27/06/2013 08:44
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Sixteenth CenturyJournal XXVIII! 2 (1997)
"I My Self": Queen Elizabeth I's Oration at Tilbury Camp
Janet M. Green Kent State University-Ashtabula Queen ElizabethI made one of her most famous speeches on August 9, 1588, atTilbut bury Camp. Its authenticityhas been doubted occasionally, substantialevidence indicates that it is genuine. Its internal rhetorical characteristicslink this oration strongly to Elizabeth'sothers.Also, considerablecontemporary evidence exists that were like those of she delivereda speech at Tilbury whose phrases,often remarked, the speech we have.Finally, one of the two surviving texts-BM HarleianMS 6798, article 18-is in the handwritingof another,namely of Dr. Leonel Sharpe,authorof a 1623 letter first publishedin the Cabala 1654, in which Sharpe(almostcertainly of an eyewitnessatTilbury) gives the now familiartext.Though the HarleianMS is in a few placesliterarilyinferior
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Sixteenth CenturyJournal XXVIII! 2 (1997)
"I My Self": Queen Elizabeth I's Oration at Tilbury Camp
Janet M. Green Kent State University-Ashtabula Queen ElizabethI made one of her most famous speeches on August 9, 1588, atTilbut bury Camp. Its authenticityhas been doubted occasionally, substantialevidence indicates that it is genuine. Its internal rhetorical characteristicslink this oration strongly to Elizabeth'sothers.Also, considerablecontemporary evidence exists that were like those of she delivereda speech at Tilbury whose phrases,often remarked, the speech we have.Finally, one of the two surviving texts-BM HarleianMS 6798, article 18-is in the handwritingof another,namely of Dr. Leonel Sharpe,authorof a 1623 letter first publishedin the Cabala 1654, in which Sharpe(almostcertainly of an eyewitnessatTilbury) gives the now familiartext.Though the HarleianMS is in a few placesliterarilyinferior