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 Prince Henry’s Barriers and Tethys’ Festival
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 3 Henry VI and Richard III
Kavita Mudan

15. Mirrors for Female Rulers: Elizabeth I and the Duchess of Malfi
Laura Tosi

Avainsanat: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Fiction, Poetry and Poetics, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland