Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture

by Petrina, Alessandra; Tosi, Laura

• ISBN13: 9780230278172
• ISBN10: 0230278175
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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.

Author Biography

Alessandra Petrina is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Universit di Padova, Italy. Her published works include Cultural Politics in Fifteenth-century England: The Case of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (2004), and Machiavelli in the British Isles: Two Early Modern Translations of the Prince (2009). Laura Tosi is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University Ca' Foscari in Venice, Italy. She has published monograph studies on Ben Jonson and John Webster, and her latest book is on the literary fairy tale in England. She has edited, with S. Bassi, the collection of essays Visions of Venice in Shakespeare (2011).

Table of Contents

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