Machine generated contents note: -- 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 Poëtresse': 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.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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