Representations of Elizabeth I in early modern culture / edited by Alessandra Petrina, Laura Tosi.

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 Poe¨tresse' : 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.