Representations of Elizabeth I in early modern culture / edited by Alessandra Petrina, Laura Tosi.
| Other author | Petrina, Alessandra. |
| Other author | Tosi, Laura, 1966- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. |
| Description | xv, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: 'A monarch in writing' / Alessandra Petrina -- 1. Prologue: I am Richard II / Stephen Orgel -- Part I. The Word of a Prince: Elizabeth Writing: 2. The Queen's two hands / Jonathan Gibson; 3. Mary Stuart's execution and Queen Elizabeth's divided self / Paola Baseotto; 4. 'Ma plume vous pourra exprimer': Elizabeth's French correspondance / Guillaume Coatalen; 5. '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: 6. The monarch as represented in the Ceremony of Coronation / Janette Dillon; 7. Elizabeth's presence in the Jacobean masque / Effie Botonaki; 8. 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 Mirros More than One: Elizabeth and Representations of Female Sovereignty: 9. Performing the Apocalypse: sibylline prophecy and Elizabeth I / Jessica L. Malay; Under Italian eyes: Petruccio Ubaldini's verbal portraits of Queen Elizabeth / Giovanni Iamartino; 11. Never a merry world: the rhetoric of nostalgia in Elizabethan England / Kristine Johanson; 12. Representations of ageing female rulers on the early modern state / Yvonne Oram; 13. 'A queen in jest': queenship and historical subversion in Shakespeare's 3 Henry VI and Richard III / Kavita Mudan; 14. Mirrors for female rulers: Elizabeth I and the Duchess of Malfi / Laura Tosi. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2011004364 |
| ISBN | 9780230278172 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0230278175 (hardback) |