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The essays in this book traverse two centuries of queens and their afterlives - historical, mythological, and literary. They speak of the significant and subtle ways that queens leave their mark on the culture they inhabit, focusing on gender, marriage, national identity, diplomacy, and representations of queens in literature. Elizabeth I looms large in this volume, but the interrogation of queenship extends from Elizabeth's historical counterparts, such as Anne Boleyn and Catherine de Medici, to her fictional echoes in the pages of John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Mary Wroth, John Milton, and Margaret Cavendish. Celebrating and building on the renowned scholarship of Carole Levin, Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies exemplifies a range of innovative approaches to examining women and power in the early modern period.

Plain Queen, Gorgeous King: Tudor Royal Faces -- "Let nature paint your beauty's glory": Beauty and Cosmetics -- Meeting the Queen: Documentary Accounts -- "Mirrors more than one": Elizabeth's Literary Faces -- Portraiture: The Painted Texts of Elizabeth's Faces.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Studies of Queens in Honor of Carole Levin -- Part I Prelude: Studying Queens -- Chapter 2 Queenship and Power: The Heart and Stomach of a Book Series -- Part II Queens and Matters of Gender -- Chapter 3 Did Elizabeth's Gender Really Matter? -- The Right to Rule -- Anxieties Concerning Female Rule -- Elizabeth's Power and Authority -- Strategies of Rule -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4 A Great Reckoning in a Little Room: Elizabeth, Essex, and Royal Interruptions -- Chapter 5 "We Are Such Stuff": Absolute Feminine Power vs. Cinematic Myth-Making in Julie Taymor's Tempest (2010) -- Part III Queens and Marriage -- Chapter 6 Elizabeth I and the Marriage Crisis, John Lyly's Campaspe, and the Politics of Court Drama -- The Politics of the Marriage Crisis -- The Rhetoric of the Marriage Debate and Public Discourse -- Campaspe -- Chapter 7 Tudor Consorts: The Politics of Matchmaking, 1483-1543 -- Chapter 8 The Queen's Deathbed Wish in Early Modern Fairy Tales: Securing the Dynasty -- Early Modern Fairy Tales: Final Wishes -- Queens and Daughters -- Katherine of Aragon and Mary Tudor -- Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth Tudor -- Part IV Queens and Religion -- Chapter 9 Spenser's Dragon Fight and the English Queen: The Struggle Over the Elizabethan Settlement -- Spenser's Dragon Fight and the Elizabethan Settlement -- The First Day -- The Second Day -- The Third Day and Its Aftermath -- Elizabeth on the Margin -- Chapter 10 Anne Boleyn's Legacy to Elizabeth I: Neoclassicism and the Iconography of Protestant Queenship -- Anne Boleyn and Neoclassicism -- From Anne to Elizabeth: Disjunctions and Continuities -- Neoclassicism in Royal Entertainments of the 1560s -- An Adaptable Legacy: Marriage, Messianic Prophecy, Imperial Power -- Conclusion.