Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture

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 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

CARLO M. BAJETTA Professor of English Literature at the Université de la Vallée d'Aoste, Italy PAOLA BASEOTTO Lecturer at the Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Como, Italy EFFIE BOTONAKI Lecturer at the Greek Open University and Aristotle University, Greece GUILLAUME COATALEN Lecturer in Renaissance English Literature at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, France JANETTE DILLON Professor of Drama at the University of Nottingham, UK JONATHAN GIBSON Academic Co-ordinator at the English Subject Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK GIOVANNI IAMARTINO Professor of English at the University of Milan, Italy KRISTINE JOHANSON PhD graduate from the University of St Andrews, UK JESSICA MALAY Reader in Renaissance Literature at the University of Huddersfield, UK KAVITA MUDAN PhD graduate in English Literature from the University of Oxford, UK YVONNE ORAM PhD graduate from the University of Birmingham, and has taught at the Open University, UK STEPHEN ORGEL Professor in the Department of English, Stanford University, USA SARA TREVISAN Caird Senior Research Fellow at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK