Contents: Introduction, Carole Levin, Jo Eldridge Carney and Debra Barrett-Graves; Elizabeth and a Problematic Court; Queen and Country?: Female monarchs and feminized nations in Elizabethan political pamphlets, Jacqueline Vanhoutte; Robert Sidney, the Dudleys, and Queen Elizabeth, Michael G. Brennan, Noel J. Kinnamon, and Margaret P. Hannay; 'Highly touched in honour': Elizabeth I and the Alençon controversy, Debra Barrett-Graves; Elizabeth Moves Through her Kingdom: Religious conformity and the progresses of Elizabeth I, Mary Hill Cole; Turning learned authority into Royal supremacy: Elizabeth I's learned persona and her university orations, Linda Shenk; The Fairy Queen figure in Elizabethan entertainments, Matthew Woodcock; Looking at Elizabeth through Another Lens: 'A poore shepherde and his sling': A biblical model for a Renaissance queen, Michele Osherow ; 'Ceste Nouvelle Papesse': Elizabeth I and the specter of Pope Joan, Craig Rustici ; Queen to queen at Check: Grace O'Malley, Elizabeth Tudor, and the discourse of majesty in the state papers of Ireland, Brandie R. Siegfried; Elizabeth Then and Now: Elizabeth and the politics of Elizabethan courtship, Ilona Bell; Popular perceptions of Elizabeth, Sara Mendelson; Young Elizabeth in peril: from 17th-century drama to modern day movies, Carole Levin and Jo Eldridge Carney; Afterword, Janel Mueller; Bibliography; Index.
