Was Queen Elizabeth I really a mother? And was she the mother of the author of Shakespeare’s plays?
The early evening lecture features:
Carole Levin, Author
Tamara Meneghini, Elizabeth I: In Her Own Words Actor
Elizabeth I: In Her Own Words author Carole Levin will provide a lecture about Elizabeth I, and will be joined by Elizabeth I actor Tamara Meneghini.
The author will also bring some books for sale (option to purchase or make a donation to the artist once at the venue).
About BETC’s Elizabeth I: In Her Own Words Performance:
Having thrilled audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, BETC favorite Tamara Meneghini and her artistic collaborators now bring their riveting, one-woman show to Boulder!
This passionate and revealing play – threaded throughout with the monarch’s own words and passages from Shakespeare’s plays – shares the humanity, demands, and deep complication of being a woman and a leader nearing the end of her life.
About Carole Levin:
Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History Emerita at the University of Nebraska. She specializes in early modern English cultural, political, and women’s history. She is the author or editor of twenty-one books, most recently The Reign and Life of Queen Elizabeth I: Politics, Culture, and Society (2022) and Creatively Expanding the Premodern: Historical and Literary Afterlives (2025). In 2024 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. Her play, Elizabeth I: In Her Own Words, starring Tamara Meneghini, has been performed at the Edinburgh Fringe and other places.
About the Annex
Let us entertain you! For FREE!
BETC is the resident theatre company at the New Local Annex, a new and intimate performance venue we’d love for you to come discover!
Performance Details
Venue
The New Local Annex
713 Pearl Street, Boulder CO 80302
Parking: We recommend to folks that they park on 7th St. adjacent to The New Local Annex as it is 3 hour free parking and usually pretty open.
Schedule
The lecture begins at 5pm on September 19th and goes until around 6pm.
Tickets
The capacity is 40. Please reserve your complimentary tickets online before the performance here.
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