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ELIZABETH I (1533 - 1603) An Essential Bibliography

Writings: Allinson, Rayne, A Monarchy of Letters: Royal Correspondence and English Diplomacy in the Reign of Elizabeth I, Palgrave Macmillan 2012. Bajetta, Carlo M., ―'Most peereles Poëtresse': the manuscript circulation of Elizabeth's poems‖, in Representations of Elizabeth, ed. A. Petrina - L. Tosi, Palgrave MacMillan, London 2011, pp. 105-121. Beal, Peter and Grace Ioppolo, eds., Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing, London: The British Library, 2007. Bell, Ilona. ―Elizabeth Tudor: Poet.‖ Images of Elizabeth I: A Quadricentennial Celebration. Edited by Donald Stump and Carole Levin. Special issue, Explorations in Renaissance Culture 30 (Summer 2004): 1-22. Benkert, Lysbeth. ―Translation as Image-Making: Elizabeth I‘s Translation of Boethius‘s Consolation of Philosophy.‖ Early Modern Literary Studies 6.3 (January 2001): 2.1-20. Bradner, Leicester, ed. The Poems of Elizabeth I. Providence: Brown UP, 1964. Bruce, John, ed. Letters of Queen Elizabeth and King James VI of Scotland. London: Camden Society, 1849. Rpt. New York: AMS, 1968. Frye, Susan. ―The Myth of Elizabeth at Tilbury.‖ Sixteenth Century Journal 23 (1992): 95-114. Green, Janet M. ― ‗I My Self‘: Queen Elizabeth I‘s Oration at Tilbury Camp.‖ Sixteenth Century Journal 28 (1997): 42145. Harrison, G.B., ed. The Letters of Queen Elizabeth I. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1935, 1968. Heisch, Allison. Queen Elizabeth I: Political Speeches and Parliamentary Addresses, 1558-1601. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1994. Herman, Peter C., ed. Reading Monarch’s Writing: The Poetry of Henry VIII, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, and James VI/I. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002. Hopkins, Lisa. Writing Renaissance Queens: Texts by and about Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2002. Kinney, Arthur F. Elizabethan Backgrounds: Historical Documents of the Age of Elizabeth. 2d ed. Hamden, CT: Shoe String, 1975. Marcus, Leah S., Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose, eds. Elizabeth I, Collected Works. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000. May, Steven W., ed. Elizabeth I: Selected Works. Washington Square, 2004. May, Steven W. ―Queen Elizabeth to Her Subjects: The Tilbury and Golden Speeches.‖ Images of Elizabeth I: A Quadricentennial Celebration. Edited by Donald Stump and Carole Levin. Special issue, Explorations in Renaissance Culture 30 (Summer 2004): 23-39.

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Mueller, Janel, and Leah S. Marcus. Elizabeth I, Autograph Compositions and Foreign Language Originals. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. Mueller, Janel. ―Textualism, Contextualism, and the Writings of Queen Elizabeth I.‖ English Studies and History. Ed. David Robertson. Tampere, Finland: U of Tampere P, 1994. 11-38. Perry, Maria. The Word of a Prince. Woodbridge, Eng.: Boydell, 1995. Petrina, Alessandra and Tosi, Laura, ed., Representations of Elizabeth, Palgrave MacMillan, London 2011. Prescott, Anne Lake. ―The Pearl of the Valois and Elizabeth I: Marguerite de Navarre‘s Miroir and Tudor England.‖ In Margaret Patterson Hannay, ed. Silent but for the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators and Writers of Religious Works. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 1985. 61-76. Prior, Felix, ed. Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters. Berkeley: U of California P, 2003. Rice, George P., ed. The Public Speaking of Queen Elizabeth: Selections from Her Official Addresses. New York: Columbia UP, 1951. Rose, Mary Beth. ―The Gendering of Authority in the Public Speeches of Elizabeth I.‖ PMLA 115 (2000): 1077-82. Shell, Marc. Elizabeth’s Glass; With The Glass of the Sinful Soul (1544) by Elizabeth I and Epistle Dedicatory and Conclusion by John Bale. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1993. Summit, Jennifer. ―The Arte of a Ladies Penne‘: Elizabeth I and the Poetics of Queenship.‖ The Mysteries of Elizabeth. Ed. Kirby Farrell and Kathleen Swaim. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2003. 67-96. Summit, Jennifer. Lost Property: The Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380–1589. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2000. Teague, Frances. ―Elizabeth I: Queen of England.‖ Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation. Ed. Katharine M. Wilson. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1987. 522-47. Teague, Frances. ―Queen Elizabeth in Her Speeches.‖ Gloriana’s Face. Ed. S. P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1992. 67-69. Woudhuysen, H.R., "The Queen's Own hand, A Preliminary Account", in Beal, Peter and Grace Ioppolo, eds., Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing, London: The British Library, 2007.

The Queen’s Life and Reign / aspects of Elizabeth’s figure in history and literature Adler, Doris. ―Imaginary Toads in Real Gardens.‖ English Literary Renaissance 2 (1981): 235-60. Archer, Jayne Elizabeth, Elizabeth Goldring, and Sarah Knight, eds, The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Arnold, Janet. Queen Elizabeth’s Wardrobe Unlock’d. Leeds: Maney, 1988. Bassnett, Susan. Elizabeth I: A Feminist Perspective. Oxford: Berg, 1988. Beem, Charles, ed. The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Beem, Charles, The Lioness Roared: The Problems of Female Rule in English History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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Bela, Teresa, The Image of the Queen in Elizabethan Poetry, Krakow: Nakladem Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 1994. Bell, Ilona. Elizabeth I: The Voice of a Monarch. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Bell, Ilona. ―Elizabeth I—Always Her Own Free Woman.‖ Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women. Ed. Carole Levin and Patricia A. Sullivan. Albany: State U of New York P, 1995. 57-82. Belsey, Andrew, and Catherine Belsey, ―Icons of Divinity: Portraits of Elizabeth I‖, in Renaissance Bodies. The Human Figure in English Culture c.1540-1660, ed. by Lucy Gent and Nigel Llewellyn, London: Reaktion, 1990, pp. 11-35. Berry, Philippa, Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen, London: Routledge, 1989. Bowman, Mary R., ―‗She there as Princess rained‘: Spenser‘s Figure of Elizabeth‖, Renaissance Quarterly 43 (1990): pp. 509-528. Cavanagh, Sheila. ―The Bad Seed: Princess Elizabeth and the Seymour Incident.‖ Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana. Ed. Julia Walker. Durham: Duke UP, 1998. 9-29. Coch, Christine. ―‗Mother of my Contreye‘: Elizabeth I and Tudor Constructions of Motherhood.‖ ELR 26 (1996): 423-51. Cole, Mary Hill. ―Maternal Memory: Elizabeth Tudor‘s Anne Boleyn.‖ Images of Elizabeth I: A Quadricentennial Celebration. Ed. Donald Stump and Carole Levin. Special issue, Explorations in Renaissance Culture 30 (Summer 2004): 41-55. Collinson, Patrick. Elizabeth I. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. Crane, Mary Thomas, ―‗Video et Taceo‘: Elizabeth I and the Rhetoric of Counsel‖, Studies in English Literature 15001900 28 (1988): pp. 1-15. Dobson, Michael and Nicola J. Watson, England’s Elizabeth. An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Doebler, B.A., ―Venus-Humanitas: An Iconic Elizabeth‖, Journal of European Studies 12 (1982): pp. 233-48. Doran, Susan and David Starkey, Elizabeth: the Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, London: Chatto and Windus, 2003. Doran, Susan and Thomas S. Freeman, eds., The Myth of Elizabeth, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Doran, Susan, "Elizabeth I‘s Religion: the Evidence of Letters", Journal of Ecclesiastical History 51 (2000), 699-720. Doran, Susan, ―Juno Versus Diana: The Treatment of Elizabeth I‘s Marriage in Plays and Entertainments, 1561-1581‖, The Historical Journal 38 (1995): pp. 257-274. Doran, Susan. ―Why Did Elizabeth Not Marry?‖ Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana. Ed. Julia Walker. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1998. 30-59. Doran, Susan. Monarchy and Matrimony: The Courtships of Elizabeth I. London: Routledge, 1996. Doran, Susan. Queen Elizabeth I. New York: New York UP, 2003. Dunlop, Ian. Palaces and Progresses of Elizabeth I. New Haven: Yale UP, 1993. Dunn, Jane. Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens. New York: Knopf, 2004.

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Farrell, Kirby, and Swaim, Kathleen, ed. The Mysteries of Elizabeth I: Selections from “English Literary Renaissance.” Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2003. Frye, Susan, and Karen Robertson, eds, Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women‘s Alliances in Early Modern England, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp.165-183. Frye, Susan, Elizabeth I: The Competition for Representation, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Guy, John, ed. The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. Guy, John. Tudor England. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1990. Hackett, Helen, Virgin Mother, Maiden Queen: Elizabeth I and the Cult of the Virgin Mary, New York: St. Martin‘s Press, 1995. Haigh, Christopher, ed. The Reign of Elizabeth I. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1985. Haigh, Christopher, Elizabeth I, London: Longman, 1988. Haigh, Christopher. Elizabeth I: Profile in Power. London: Longman, 1988. Hamrick, Stephen ―‗Set in Portraiture‘: George Gascoigne, Queen Elizabeth, and Adapting the Royal Image‖, Early Modern Literary Studies 11 (2005): pp. 1-30. Hartley, T.E., Elizabeth’s Parliaments: Queen, Lords, and Commons, Manchester: Manchester UP, 1992. Heisch, Allison, ―Queen Elizabeth I and the Persistence of Patriarchy‖, Feminist Review 4 (1980): pp. 45-56. Hibbert, Christopher. The Virgin Queen. Cambridge, MA: Perseus, 1991. Hulse, Clark. Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend. Urbana: Newberry Library, U of Illinois P, 2003. Jenkins, Elizabeth. Elizabeth the Great. London: Gollancz, 1958. Johnson, Paul. Elizabeth I: A Study in Power and Intellect. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1974. King, John N., ―Queen Elizabeth I: Representations of the Virgin Queen‖, Renaissance Quarterly 43 (1990): pp. 30-65. Lee, Stephen J. Reign of Elizabeth I. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2007. Lee, Stephen J., The Reign of Elizabeth I 1558-1603, London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Levin, Carole and Patricia A. Sullivan, eds. Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women. Albany: State U of New York P, 1995. Levin, Carole, "Sister-Subject/Sister-Queen: Elizabeth I among Her Siblings", In Miller, Naomi J. and Naomi Yavneh (eds and introd.), Sibling Relations and Gender in the Early Modern World: Sisters, Brothers and Others. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2006, pp. 77-88. Levin, Carole, Debra Barrett-Graves and Jo Eldridge Carney, eds. High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England: Realities and Representations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Levin, Carole, Jo Eldridge Carney, and Debra Barrett-Graves, eds. Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003.

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Levin, Carole. The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1994. Levin, Carole. The Reign of Elizabeth I. New York: Palgrave, 2002. Loades, David. Elizabeth I. London: Humbledon & London, 2003. Loomis, Catherine. The Death of Elizabeth I: Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. MacCaffrey, Wallace T. Elizabeth I. London: Edward Arnold, 1993. MacCaffrey, Wallace T., Elizabeth I, London: Arnold, 1993. MacCaffrey, Wallace T., Elizabeth I: War and Politics1588-1603, Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992 MacCaffrey, Wallace T., Queen Elizabeth and the Making of Policy, Priceton: Princeton UP, 1981 MacCaffrey, Wallace T., The Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime, London: Jonathan Cape 1969 (Pirnceton UP 1968) Marcus, Leah S., ―Shakespeare‘s Comic Heroines, Elizabeth I, and the Political Uses of Androgyny‖, in Women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Literary and Historical Perspectives, ed. by Mary Beth Rose, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1986, pp. 135-155. McLaren, A.N., Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I: Queen and Commonwealth, 1558-1585, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Mears, Natalie, Queenship and Political Discourse in the Elizabethan Realms, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Merton, Charlotte Isabelle, ―The Women who Served Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth: Ladies, Gentlewomen and Maids of the Privy Chamber, 1553–1603‖, Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1992. Montini, Donatella, I discorsi dei re. Retorica e politica in Elisabetta I e in Henry V di Shakespeare, Bari: Adriatica, 1999. Montrose, Louis Adrian, ―Idols of the Queen: Policy, Gender, and the Picturing of Elizabeth I‖, Representations 68 (1999): pp.108-161. Montrose, Louis Adrian, The Subject of Elizabeth. Authority, Gender, and Representation, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Mueller, Janel, ―Elizabeth I: Poet of Danger‖, in Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry, ed. by Patrick Cheney and Anne Lake Prescott, New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2000, pp. 202-209. Mueller, Janel, ―Virtue and Virtuality: Gender in the Self-Representations of Queen Elizabeth I‖, Form and Reform in Renaissance England: Essays in honour of Barbara Kiefer Lewalsky, ed. by Amy Boesky and Mary Thomas Crane, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999, pp. 220-246. Mulstein, Anka. Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart: The Perils of Marriage. Trans. John Brownjohn. London: Haus, 2007. Neale, J.E. Queen Elizabeth. London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. Neale, John Ernest, Elizabeth I and her Parliaments, 1559-1581, London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. Neale, John Ernest, Queen Elizabeth I, London: Jonathan Cape, 1934.

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Orlin, Lena Cowen, ―The Fictional Families of Elizabeth I‖, in Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women, ed. by Carole Levin and Patricia A. Sullivan, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995, pp. 85-110. Orlin, Lena. ―The Fictional Families of Elizabeth I.‖ Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women. Ed. Carole Levin and Patricia A. Sullivan. Albany, NY: SU of New York P, 1995, 85-109. Perry, Curtis, ―The Citizen Politics of Nostalgia: Queen Elizabeth in Early Modern Jacobean London‖, Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 23 (1993): pp. 89-111. Perry, Maria, The Word of a Prince: A Life of Elizabeth I from Contemporary Documents, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1990. Perry, Maria. The Word of a Prince. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 1990. Picard, Liza. Elizabeth’s London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London. New York: St. Martin‘s, 2004. Plowden, Alison. Elizabeth I. Stroud, Eng.: Sutton, 2004. Plowden, Alison. Marriage with My Kingdom: The Courtships of Elizabeth I. London: Macmillan, 1977. Plowden, Alison. The Young Elizabeth: The First Twenty-Five Years of Elizabeth I. Stroud, Eng.: Sutton, 1999. Pringle, Roger, A Portrait of Elizabeth I, Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble, 1980. Pryor, Felix, Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters, London: British Library, 2003. Read, Conyers, Mr Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925. Ridley, Jasper. Elizabeth I: The Shrewdness of Virtue. New York: Fromm International, 1989. Riehl, Anna. The Face of Queenship: Early Modern Representations of Elizabeth I. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Rose, Mary Beth, ―The Gendering of Authority in the Public Speeches of Elizabeth I‖, PMLA 115 (2000): pp. 10771082. Ross, Josephine. The Men Who Would be King: Suitors to Queen Elizabeth I. London: Phoenix, 2005. Ruark, Jennifer K., "Good Queen Bess, Powerful Sovereign and an Author, Too", Chronicle of Higher Education 47:4, 2000 Sept 22, A24, A26. Shenk, Linda. Learned Queen: The Image of Elizabeth I in Politics and Poetry. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Smither, L.J. ―Elizabeth I: A Psychological Profile.‖ Sixteenth Century Journal 15 (1984): 47-72. Somerset, Anne. Elizabeth I. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991. Starkey, David, Elizabeth: Apprenticeship, London: Vintage, 2001. Starkey, David. Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne. London: Perennial, 2000. Strong, Roy C., Gloriana. The Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I, London: Thames and Hudson, 1987. Strong, Roy C., Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. Strong, Roy C., The Cult of Elizabeth: Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry, London: Thames and Hudson, 1977.

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Stump, Donald, and Carole Levin, eds. Images of Elizabeth I: A Quadricentennial Celebration. Special issue, Explorations in Renaissance Culture 30 (Summer 2004). Summit, Jennifer, ―‘The Arte of a Ladies Penne‘: Elizabeth I and the Poetics of Queenship‖, ELR 26 (1996): pp.395422. Teague, Frances, ―Princess Elizabeth‘s Hand in The Glass of the Sinful Soul‖, in Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. by Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, London: The British Library, 2000, pp.33-48. Walker, Julia M., ed., Dissing Elizabeth, Negative Representations of Gloriana, Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. Walker, Julia M., The Elizabeth Icon, 1603-2003, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Walker, Julia, ed. Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana. Durham: Duke UP, 1998. Watkins, John, ―Old Bess in the Ruff: Remembering Elizabeth I 1625-1660‖, English Literary Renaissance 30 (2000): pp. 95-116. Watkins, John, Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England: Literature, History, Sovereignty, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Watkins, Susan. In Public and in Private: Elizabeth I and Her World. London: Thames & Hudson, 1998. Weir, Alison. The Life of Elizabeth I. New York: Ballantine, 1998. Williams, Penry. The Later Tudors: England 1547-1603. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1995. Wilson, Elkin Calhoun, England’s Eliza, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1939. Woolf, D.R., ―Two Elizabeths? James I and the Late Queen‘s Famous Memory‖, Canadian Journal of History 20 (1985): pp. 167-191. Wright, Pam, ―A Change in Direction: The Ramification of a Female Household, 1558–1603‖, in The English Court: From the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War, ed. by David Starkey et al., London, New York: Longman, 1987, pp. 147–72. Yates, Frances A., Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975. Ziegler, Georgianna, ed. Elizabeth I: Then and Now. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2003.

Links Elizabeth I - Biography From Tudorhistory.com. Selected Poetry of Elizabeth I (1533-1603) From Representative Poetry On-line - Department of English at the University of Toronto. The Life and Times Of Queen Elizabeth I Interesting as well as educational information on the life and times of Queen Elizabeth. Includes some texts. Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I Elizabeth was perhaps the first monarch to understand the importance of public relations and she carefully prepared her image for public consumption. This site presents a good deal of them...

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'Elizabeth: Ruler & Legend'. An exhibit at the Newberry Library website. Very good images. Includes a Bibliography... and a Filmography !!! The Queen Elizabeth I Society The Queen Elizabeth I Society aims to bring together scholars interested in the Queen and in the intellectual, artistic, cultural, and religious life of her court. This website includes a much larger bibliography than the one presented on Readytoteach, though not often updated.