Abstract
In the construction of Elizabeth Tudor over time a set of interlinked types of images persists. This essay demonstrates these images' participation in a Butlerean process of sexed bodily identification requiring continual, repetitive iterations of a sexed subjectivity and the repeated designation of a realm of sexually abject figures for survival. My focus here is on speeches by Elizabeth, portraiture and contemporary and later commentary, especially where these are concerned with gender and sexuality in connection with clothing. These representations will be analyzed specifically to illustrate the keen primacy of gender and sex to Elizabeth's identity formation – both by herself and others – in the cultural imaginary.
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