Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Dark Side of the Cult of Elizabeth
  • History and Policy
  • The Bad Seed: Princess Elizabeth and the Seymour Incident
  • Why Did Elizabeth Not Marry?
  • The Royal Image in Elizabeth Ireland
  • "We shall never have a merry world while the Queene lyveth": Gender, Monarchy, and the Power of Seditious Words
  • Pamphlets and Sermons
  • "Soueraigne Lord of lordly Lady of this land": Elizabeth, Stubbs, and the Gaping Gvlf
  • Out of Egypt: Richard Fletcher's Sermon before Elizabeth I after the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots
  • The Power of the Poets
  • "The Image of this Queeneso quaynt": The Pornographic Blazon 1588-1608
  • Queen Elizabeth Compiled: Henry Stanford's Private Anthology and the Question of Accountability
  • "Not as women wonted be": Spenser's Amazon Queen
  • The Image of the Queen
  • Fair Is Fowle: Interpreting Anti-Elizabethan Composite Portariture
  • Bones of Contention: Posthumous Images of Elizabeth and Stuart Politics
  • Secondary Works Cited
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index