Abstract

1. Introduction: Studies of Queens in Honor of Carole Levin I. Prelude: Studying Queens 2. Queenship and Power: The Heart and Stomach of a Book Series II. Queens and Matters of Gender 3. Did Elizabeth's Gender Really Matter? 4. Great Reckoning in a Little Room: Elizabeth, Essex, and Royal Interruptions 5. We are such stuff: Absolute Feminine Power vs. Cinematic Myth-Making in Julie Taymor's Tempest (2010) III. Queens and Marriage 6. Elizabeth I and the Marriage Crisis, John Lyly's Campaspe, and the Politics of Court Drama 7. Tudor Consorts: The Politics of Royal Matchmaking, 1483-1543 8. The Queen's Deathbed Wish in Early Modern Fairy Tales: Securing the Dynasty IV. Queens and Religion 9. Spenser's Dragon Fight and the English Queen: The Struggle over the Elizabethan Settlement 10. Anne Boleyn's Legacy to Elizabeth I: Neoclassicism and the Iconography of Protestant Queenship 11. A Network of Honor and Obligation: Elizabeth as Godmother.- V. Queens, National Identity, and Diplomacy 12. Lesbianism in Early Modern Vernacular Romance: The Question of Historicity 13. Doppelganger Queens: Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart 14. Elizabeth I and the Politics of Invoking Russia in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost 15. Queen Elizabeth I and Elizabethan Court in the French Ambassador's Eyes VI. Inspired by the Queen: Queens in Literature 16. Queen of Love-Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Wroth 17. Dressing Queens (and Some Others): Signifying through Clothing in Wroth's Countess of Montgomery's Urania 18. Conjuring Three Queens and an Empress: The Philosophy of Enchantment in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World

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