Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture [Hardcover]

The volume explores Elizabeth I's impact on English and European culture during her?life and after her death, through her own writing as well as through contemporary and later writers. The contributors are codicologists, historians and literary critics, offering a varied reading of the Queen and of her cultural inheritance.Introduction: 'A monarch in writing'; A.Petrina Prologue: 'I am Richard the Second'; S.Orgel PART I: THE WORD OF A PRINCE: ELIZABETH WRITING The Queen's two hands; J.Gibson Mary Stuart's Execution and Queen Elizabeth's Divided Self; P.Baseotto 'Ma plume vous pourra exprimer': Elizabeth's French Correspondance ; G.Coatalen 'Most peereles Po?tresse': The Manuscript Circulation of Elizabeth's Poems; C.Bajetta PART II: WE PRINCES ARE SET ON STAGES: MASQUES AND CEREMONIES OF ROYAL SELF-DISPLAY The Monarch as Represented in the Ceremony of Coronation; J.Dillon Elizabeth's Presence in the Jacobean Masque; E.Botonaki Lady of the Lake or Queen of the Ocean? The Representation of Female Power in Prince Henry's Barriers and Tethys' Festival ; S.Trevisan PART III: IN MIRRORS MORE THAN ONE: ELIZABETH AND REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMALE SOVEREIGNTY Performing the Apocalypse: Sibylline Prophecy and Elizabeth I; J.L.Malay Under Italian eyes: Petruccio Ubaldini's Verbal Portraits of Queen Elizabeth; G.Iamartino Never a Merry World: The Rhetoric of Nostalgia in Elizabethan England; K.Johanson No Country for Old Women?; Y.Oram 'A queen in jest': Queenship and Historical Subversion in Shakespeare's 3 Henry VI and Richard III ; K.Mudan Mirrors for Female Rulers: Elizabeth I and the Duchess of Malfi; L.Tosi Index

'This new essay collection makes a serious and significant contribution to studies of Elizabeth I. A diversity of approaches sheds new light on this iconic queen, investigating the materiality of her own writings as well as her influence on stagings of female power. We are invited to view her from perspectives of prophecy and nostalgia, and to look afresh atl£_