Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture

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