Petrina, Alessandra
Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture
1. Introduction: a Monarch in Writing
Alessandra Petrina
2. Prologue: I am Richard II
Stephen Orgel
Part I. The Word of a Prince: Elizabeth Writing
3. The Queen’s Two Hands
Jonathan Gibson
4. Mary Stuart’s Execution and Queen Elizabeth’s Divided Self
Paola Baseotto
5. ‘Ma plume vous pourra exprimer’: Elizabeth’s French Correspondence
Guillaume Coatalen
6. ‘Most peereles Poëtresse’: the Manuscript Circulation of Elizabeth’s Poems
Carlo M. Bajetta
Part II. We Princes are set on Stages: Masques and Ceremonies of Royal Self-display
7. The Monarch as Represented in the Ceremony of Coronation
Janette Dillon
8. Elizabeth’s Presence in the Jacobean Masque
Effie Botonaki
9. Lady of the Lake or Queen of the Ocean? The Representation of Female Power in
Sara Trevisan
Part III. In Mirrors more than One: Elizabeth and Representations of Female Sovereignty
10. Performing the Apocalypse: Sibylline Prophecy and Elizabeth I
Jessica L. Malay
11. Under Italian Eyes: Petruccio Ubaldini’s Verbal Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I
Giovanni Iamartino
12. Never a Merry World: the Rhetoric of Nostalgia in Elizabethan England
Kristine Johanson
13. Representations of Ageing Female Rulers on the Early Modern Stage
Yvonne Oram
14. ‘A queen in jest’: Queenship and Historical Subversion in Shakespeare’s
Kavita Mudan
15. Mirrors for Female Rulers: Elizabeth I and the Duchess of Malfi
Laura Tosi
Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Fiction, Poetry and Poetics, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland
- Editor
- Petrina, Alessandra
- Tosi, Laura
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2011
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 296 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230307261
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-32605-1