A collection of five new essays with essays first published in the English literary renaissance. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Preface : the mysteries of Elizabeth I / Kirby Farrell -- Performance and reality at the court of Elizabeth I / F. W. Brownlow -- Elizabeth's coronation entry (1559) : new manuscript evidence / David M. Bergeron -- Queen Elizabeth at Oxford : new light on the royal plays of 1566 / John R. Elliott, Jr. -- Queen Elizabeth, dol common, and the performance of the royal maundy / Caroline McManus -- "The arte of a ladies penne" : Elizabeth I and the poetics of queenship / Jennifer Summit -- The French verses of Elizabeth I (text) / Steven W. May and Anne Lake Prescott -- "Mother of my contreye" : Elizabeth I and Tudor constructions of motherhood / Christine Coch -- "Eliza, queen of shepheardes", and the pastoral of power / Louis Adrian Montrose -- Returning to Elizabethan protest, plague, and plays : rereading the "documents of control" / Barbara Freedman -- Elizabeth Southwell's manuscript account of the death of Queen Elizabeth (with text) / Catherine Loomis -- "Old Bess in the ruff" : remembering Elizabeth I, 1625-1660 / John Watkins -- Doing the queen : gender, sexuality, and the censorship of Elizabeth I's royal image in twentieth-century mass media / Richard Burt -- Recent studies in Elizabeth I / Steven W. May.
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