Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: a Monarch in Writing....Pages 1-10
Prologue: I am Richard II....Pages 11-43
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
The Queen’s Two Hands....Pages 47-65
Mary Stuart’s Execution and Queen Elizabeth’s Divided Self....Pages 66-82
‘Ma plume vous pourra exprimer’: Elizabeth’s French Correspondence....Pages 83-104
‘Most peereles Poëtresse’: the Manuscript Circulation of Elizabeth’s Poems....Pages 105-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
The Monarch as Represented in the Ceremony of Coronation....Pages 125-139
Elizabeth’s Presence in the Jacobean Masque....Pages 140-157
Lady of the Lake or Queen of the Ocean? The Representation of Female Power in Prince Henry’s Barriers and Tethys’ Festival....Pages 158-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Performing the Apocalypse: Sibylline Prophecy and Elizabeth I....Pages 175-192
Under Italian Eyes: Petruccio Ubaldini’s Verbal Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I....Pages 193-209
Never a Merry World: the Rhetoric of Nostalgia in Elizabethan England....Pages 210-227
Representations of Ageing Female Rulers on the Early Modern Stage....Pages 228-243
‘A queen in jest’: Queenship and Historical Subversion in Shakespeare’s 3 Henry VI and Richard III....Pages 244-256
Mirrors for Female Rulers: Elizabeth I and the Duchess of Malfi....Pages 257-275
Back Matter....Pages 276-281